by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 1, 2013 | Opinion
I skipped church on Easter … at least the regular sort, which is not to say I didn’t experience some sense of church and community. While driving home from a visit with my parents, I stopped along a stretch of the Carolina Sandhills Wildlife Preserve in a...
by Seth Vopat | Apr 1, 2013 | Opinion
As a loyal member of Jayhawk Nation, I was crushed when Kansas University couldn’t repeat its famous comeback of the 2008 NCAA championship against Kentucky last year. And within moments of Kentucky winning the title, I began to hear shouts hailing a new...
by Leroy Seat | Apr 1, 2013 | Opinion
You may not have remembered her name, but perhaps you recall hearing about the young U.S. woman who was killed in 2003 by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip. Her life story is told in a one-woman play titled “My Name is Rachel Corrie” and more fully in...
by Chuck Queen | Apr 1, 2013 | Opinion
In St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin hangs an ancient door with a rough hewn, rectangular opening hacked out in the center to commemorate a significant event. In 1492, two prominent Irish families, the Ormands and Kildares, were in the midst of a bitter feud....
by John D. Pierce | Mar 30, 2013 | Opinion
By John Pierce A once stalwart of Christian fundamentalism, who discovered grace later in life, submitted a manuscript to our Nurturing Faith book publishing company several months ago. The book will be published in a few weeks. For many years this pastor tickled the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 29, 2013 | Opinion
On “Good Friday,” I often contemplate the name we have given this day, a day one would think we might call “Black Friday” or something equally bleak. At least one explanation is that the name evolved from a Germanic version of...
