by Mandy McMichael | Sep 19, 2013 | Opinion
Sunday night I settled in with a notebook and pen to watch Miss America, just as I have for the past several years. In 2011, I had the opportunity to attend the 90th anniversary pageant in person in Las Vegas, but a trip to Atlantic City was not in the cards this...
by Joe LaGuardia | Sep 18, 2013 | Opinion
I remember one day when my father showed me a black-and-white photo of him and his buddies from his high-school days. They were all Italian – bred and raised in a typical 1950s neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y. Dad showed me the picture because I was trying to rediscover...
by Mark Goodacre | Sep 18, 2013 | Opinion
I’ve greatly enjoyed the first couple of episodes of Simon Schama’s “Story of the Jews” currently airing on BBC-2. Schama is a wonderful storyteller and he knows how to make his subject matter compelling and memorable. This is always very...
by Dennis Bickers | Sep 18, 2013 | Opinion
I received a call recently from a leader in a small church about an ongoing problem in their church. A controller continued to create problems in the church that resulted in people leaving. Unfortunately, this is not an uncommon problem. We know controllers and their...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 17, 2013 | Opinion
Some days it’s hard to write, especially when I feel that I have nothing to say. Today is not one of those days, but it’s still hard to write, largely because I’ve already said what I want to say about the wild lunacy of a philosophy that seems to...
by Colin Harris | Sep 17, 2013 | Opinion
The “Syria issue” is so complex and volatile that any reflection on it is likely to be outdated by the time it is expressed. That being said, the discussion of the issue has illustrated pretty clearly the burden of global citizenship. The responsibilities...
