by Jerrod Hugenot | Sep 15, 2014 | Opinion
I have advised several local church search committees about many important considerations as they seek transitional or ongoing clergy to serve their congregations over the past year. During these discussions, I feel it is important to ensure the church has taken two...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 14, 2014 | Opinion
I’m too old for this. Really. But too cheap to hire professional movers. So, with a promising sale of Susan’s house in Macon on the horizon, we spent the weekend packing and cleaning and digging a drainage ditch the inspector wanted and making runs to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 12, 2014 | Opinion
When a child goes to college, parents can learn a lot. For example, I hadn’t known about one of the latest social media rages until my son told me about some comments another student had made on YikYak. Yik what? YikYak is an app, much like Twitter (though you...
by Larry Eubanks | Sep 12, 2014 | Opinion
Imagine that you and a friend decide to go see a movie, but you misread the schedule and arrive an hour into the film. Would you still go in and watch the last half of the movie? Of course not. No one jumps into the middle of a movie and expects to understand what is...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 11, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Several years ago my phone rang and it was Truett Cathy. He was very unhappy. The state of Georgia, he felt, was keeping at-risk children in bad situations and making it more difficult for him to get them into the secure, loving foster homes that he...
by Brock Ratcliff | Sep 11, 2014 | Opinion
My school district has adopted a new mathematics curriculum that is aligned with the Common Core State Standards, which set forth what a student should have learned by the end of each year in school. While the mathematics we are expected to teach our students has not...
