by Agnes Howard | Aug 22, 2014 | Opinion
This summer a relative put aside resistance and got his first smartphone, soon after sending us a picture of himself taken with his phone, captioned: “My First Facie.” Initial mirth over this mistaken terminology—”facie” instead of...
by Chuck Summers | Aug 21, 2014 | Opinion
I have a new hero now. It happened by accident recently when a friend and I met in Missouri for a few days of photography in the southwest portion of the state. We wanted to explore the prairies in the area. It just so happened that one of the prairies we visited...
by Sam Chaise | Aug 21, 2014 | Opinion
Should people be free to choose their own religion? Yes. This, to me, seems like such an obvious answer that I am flabbergasted that in much of the world, the de facto reality on the ground is “no.” Even in cases where, on paper, there is religious...
by Robert Parham | Aug 21, 2014 | Opinion
American Christians are at a proverbial fork in the road with Washington’s failure to pass comprehensive federal immigration reform. One road heads down a fruitless path. We can curse the situation. We can blame the other party. We can demand change. We can...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 20, 2014 | Opinion
An assortment of Southern Baptist pastors and officials are encouraging young people to buck the culture, choose a partner, and get married as early as their teens, according to an enlightening article by Bob Allen at Associated Baptist Press. Jon Akin, pastor of...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 20, 2014 | Opinion
Growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, my dad listened to talk radio on KRMG. On occasion, when I was not staring out the window dreaming of hitting three home runs in a World Series game, I would tune into the talking voice blaring from the speakers of my dad’s 1966...