by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 30, 2013 | Opinion
North Carolina’s new governer has raised the ire of educators in the state’s university system by suggesting that the only purpose of higher education worth funding is training that will lead directly to jobs. I suspect he’s not the only governor...
by Bill Wilson | Jan 30, 2013 | Opinion
Recently, our staff was talking about things our parents would tell us that we find ourselves repeating to our children or ourselves. We had to admit that we increasingly sound like those voices we vowed never to imitate. Here are a few of our “favorites:”...
by Chuck Queen | Jan 30, 2013 | Opinion
In his book “Letters to a Young Doubter,” William Sloan Coffin says that when he was chaplain at Yale, he would get requests from seniors to write a letter of recommendation to some “highfalutin” school like Harvard Law or Columbia Medical...
by John D. Pierce | Jan 29, 2013 | Opinion
By John Pierce Those who subscribe to Baptists Today news journal will read in the February edition that more than one-third (36 percent) of Americans believe that weird weather — such as that occurring in many parts of the U.S. this week — is evidence...
by Mark Reece | Jan 29, 2013 | Opinion
Everyone has played a variation of the childhood exercise designed to teach us the damaging power of the “rumor mill.” Whether you have five or 25 people sitting in a circle, by the time a whispered secret makes it all the way around, the original...
by Bob Newell | Jan 29, 2013 | Opinion
Although Athens, Greece, is ordinarily the epitome of mild, Mediterranean weather, January and February are our cold months. Surrounded as we are by mountains, recent weather has been at the freezing point, with snow on the ground in the city. As the temperature went...
