by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 21, 2012 | Opinion
Have you noticed the frequent news reports on how sales of automatic weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips went straight through the roof in the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook? Afraid that the murder of innocent children and their teachers — on top...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 21, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce Jennifer Harris Dault received her Master of Divinity degree from Central Baptist Theological Seminary a week and a half after her graduating class — in a bit more casual setting. Car trouble prevented Jennifer and her husband Allyn from...
by Drew Smith | Dec 21, 2012 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This column is the third part of a four-part Advent series from the Gospel of Mark on waiting, hearing, repenting and believing. Read part one here and part two here. In following the Gospel of Mark’s opening, what I have called Mark’s...
by Mike Parnell | Dec 21, 2012 | Opinion
Director Peter Jackson returns moviegoers to the land of Middle Earth as he presents the first installment of J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit.” We are welcomed into the story by Bilbo Baggins, uncle of Frodo (the main character from “The Lord of...
by Wendell Griffen | Dec 21, 2012 | Opinion
Across the United States, people are shaking their heads and searching for answers after what happened in Newtown, Conn. But let no one be mistaken or deceived. The Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre on Dec. 14 was not an aberration. Except for the number and ages...
by Chuck Queen | Dec 20, 2012 | Opinion
“By the tender mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will break upon us, to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace” (Luke 1:78-79). Years ago, a soldier who had fought in the trenches...
