by Elijah Brown | Sep 3, 2014 | Opinion
Arthur Holmes reminds us in “The Idea of a Christian College” that we must rigorously pursue the intersection of their faith within the wholeness of the human experience. A Christian college, and by implication those vocationally pursuing the study and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 2, 2014 | Opinion
I’ve thought a lot about bugs lately — mostly about the pesky mosquitoes who leave big itchy bumps all over my legs if I dare to try picking figs while wearing shorts. I’d post a picture, but if I could get one of those blood-suckers to hold still...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 2, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce [Note: My brother, Robert Franklin Pierce Jr., was a minister in the North Georgia Conference of United Methodists. He died Sept. 1 after years of struggling with a variety of health concerns. These are some of my reflections on our growing up...
by Chuck Summers | Sep 2, 2014 | Opinion
I met up with a friend to do some photography of the prairies in southwest Missouri a few weeks ago. I had never photographed prairies and, although I had a few preconceptions of what a prairie would look like, I really didn’t know what to expect. When we...
by Brock Ratcliff | Sep 2, 2014 | Opinion
The Common Core State Standards guiding public education have received a lot of press in the last year, most of it negative. There has been a strong campaign to combat the misinformation about what exactly the standards are and how they will affect local school...
by Larry Eubanks | Sep 2, 2014 | Opinion
It is almost universally accepted that the Bible stops short of outright condemnation of slavery and can even be considered to be somewhat accepting of it, even though Christians today almost universally accept that slavery is an intolerable evil. For example,...
