by John D. Pierce | Dec 18, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce At age 5, our daughter Abigail noticed the varied personifications of Santa spread among the malls and other venues of metro Atlanta. She was unconvinced of his omnipresence — and was suspicous that not everything was on the up-and-up. Recently I...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Dec 18, 2012 | Opinion
After the anniversary of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, it is worth reflecting again on the question: whose history do we read? Toward the end of the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson presented to the Congress an ambitious scheme for a new international order...
by Ed Jones | Dec 18, 2012 | Opinion
It was while at a church’s regular Sunday gathering recently that I heard a child most definitely being “shushed.” What I found interesting, although not that surprising, was that the one doing the “shushing,” was not an often wrongly...
by Robert Parham | Dec 18, 2012 | Opinion
Given the number of Americans who identity with no religion, the aggressive anti-Christian agenda of some atheists, and those who water down the practice of traditional Christianity, practicing Christians would do well to remember and recite how the faith community...
by Bob Newell | Dec 17, 2012 | Opinion
At PORTA – the Albania House in Athens – we’re all about giving. We give of ourselves, and we give nearly everything we do for free. There are many reasons for this. For one, as what Greeks call a “spiritual” center, we are not allowed to charge for...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Dec 17, 2012 | Opinion
Recently, I watched a TV advertisement for a show on Oxygen called “My Shopping Addiction.” As the title implies, it follows people who have a real addiction to shopping. I know of tobacco, alcohol and drug addiction, but how can anyone be addicted to...
