by John D. Pierce | Feb 4, 2013 | Opinion
By John Pierce Mr. Aubrey Greeson was among the first male teachers I experienced at the highly acclaimed Boynton Elementary School just east of Chickamauga National Military Park. In those glory years, the school claimed us kids for our first eight grades (no...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 4, 2013 | Opinion
You can tell a lot about a person by what he or she leaves behind. That would be particularly true when someone dies and family members or friends pick through the finances, belongings, or correspondence of the deceased. Was the person a giver or a hoarder? A saver or...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 4, 2013 | Opinion
At First Baptist Church of Asheville, N.C., we’ve been taking a close and hopeful look at the challenges and opportunities we face. That crucial work continues, and I’ve suggested that, as we do it, we need to keep in mind some pervasive trends that...
by Tony Peck | Feb 4, 2013 | Opinion
Citizenship is about identity, belonging and – in the European Union, at least – how the individual plays his or her part in the building of a democratic society. One helpful definition I read recently was: “Citizenship is the way we live together and organize...
by Simon Jones | Feb 4, 2013 | Opinion
Warming our hands on Americanos, we were sitting downstairs in a Costa Coffee shop on a cold Tuesday morning – a retired Catholic layman, a Pentecostal woman, an Anglican priest and me. We’d met to pray for the night shelter and having done that we were...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 1, 2013 | Opinion
A couple of thoughts that follow on two earlier blogs … Last Friday I meandered on the subject of living and walking positively, with one’s head up, as opposed to stumbling along heads-down in a perpetual pity party. Photo from allaboutbirds.comI’ve...
