by Bill Wilson | Dec 10, 2014 | Opinion
My 5-year-old granddaughter recently shared with her parents her Christmas wish list. Leading off, was this simple request: “a REAL magic wand.” She’s serious about this. She also asked for “a real fort.” My wife and I are enjoying...
by John Weaver | Dec 10, 2014 | Opinion
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published its fifth report in September 2013. Sir John Houghton, a well-known Christian activist and former member of Kidlington Baptist Church in Oxford, had chaired IPCC’s Science Working Group for the...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 9, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Before Battlefield Parkway (that locals still call “2A”) connected Fort Oglethorpe and Ringgold, Ga., as well as I-75, the brief drive from our house to church was over undesignated Daffron Hill. Daily traffic counts were in the mere dozens. Returning...
by Fayiah S. Tamba | Dec 9, 2014 | Opinion
Is this Liberia? No, things have changed. “There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why … I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” So said Robert F. Kennedy as a way to describe his passion for positive change. Amid the...
by Robert Parham | Dec 9, 2014 | Opinion
Leaders of the world’s major religions gathered last week at the Vatican to show their united commitment to ending “modern slavery.” The “Declaration of Religious Leaders against Slavery” was signed by Pope Francis, Archbishop Justin...
by Ron Rolheiser | Dec 8, 2014 | Opinion
When the famous historian Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) decided to become a Roman Catholic, his aristocratic mother was distressed, not because she had any aversion to Catholic dogma, but because now her son would, in her words, have to “worship with the...
