by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 8, 2013 | Opinion
Where’s a grove filled with cherry blossoms when you need it? A colder-than-average spring threw off horticulturalists’ best predictions, and Washington D.C.’s famed “Cherry Blossom Festival,” planned for peak blooming week, brought more...
by Bill Wilson | Apr 8, 2013 | Opinion
One effect of growing up in 20th-century America is that I love cars. Early on, I got the fever. Played with them as a kid, worked on them, collected them, admired them, dreamed of them. I’ve owned around 25 cars of multiple sorts. Started with a ’64 Chevy...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 8, 2013 | Opinion
There is something in us – something sacred, I believe – which recoils from the idea that the universe is its own explanation, that our existence here is a happy but meaningless stroke of cosmic luck, and that there is no Artist, no Designer and no Life-Giver behind,...
by Robert Parham | Apr 8, 2013 | Opinion
The United Methodist Church won a moral victory – in a way – when Associated Press (AP) announced that it was changing its stylebook to stop sanctioning the use of the term “illegal immigrant.” Methodists began their “Drop the I-Word” campaign...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 5, 2013 | Opinion
It’s a hard time to be a North Carolinian if you have a single progressive bone in your body. The NC legislature, with firm Republican majorities in both houses and a Republican governor in the capitol, is running amuck with bad ideas. There’s a new voter...
by Aaron Weaver | Apr 5, 2013 | Opinion
Abortion, homosexuality and church-state separation. These are all issues on which Baptists have made their diverse opinions loudly known to the public. But predatory lending is definitely not an issue that many associate with Baptists. Yet Baptists in several states...
