by Drew Smith | Aug 14, 2014 | Opinion
Over the years that I have spent reading the Gospels, I have come to the conclusion that Jesus was not simply a teacher of spirituality as some like to make him out to be. Nor was he some divine figure who went about Galilee healing people. He was certainly both of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 13, 2014 | Opinion
When Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote “With a Little Help from My Friends,” they did it so Ringo could sing the lead on one of the songs from the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” I don’t know if their main motivation was...
by Joe LaGuardia | Aug 13, 2014 | Opinion
In the movie, “The Words,” actor Bradley Cooper plays a struggling writer named Rory Jansen. Like so many amateur authors, Rory is unable to get published, much less noticed. While on a honeymoon in France, he stumbles upon an old, unpublished manuscript...
by Robert Parham | Aug 13, 2014 | Opinion
Knowing how we started and how we’ve been traveling will help our readers know what we need this week–financially. “We’re building the train as it’s moving down the tracks,” said Wilmer C. Fields, one of most seasoned Baptist...
by Roger Olson | Aug 12, 2014 | Opinion
An old saying often attributed to Napoleon is: “History is but a fable agreed upon.” Postmodern philosophy is teaching us that there is no such thing as an objective account of history; history is always written and taught from some point of view. There is...
by Jonathan Barr | Aug 12, 2014 | Opinion
A hundred years ago this August, the world sunk into the dark trauma of World War I—a conflict so costly and all-consuming that no one could be left untouched by its shadow. Millions of lives were cut short, and millions more scarred by the experience of battle. So...
