by Robert Parham | Nov 27, 2012 | Opinion
Americans are fascinated with surviving an apocalyptic collapse – whether a fabricated story or a feared scenario. Consider three popular TV dramas. One is the “The Walking Dead,” a drama about surviving zombies, who eat flesh, and stressed out human...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 26, 2012 | Opinion
Over the Thanksgiving weekend I read Eben Alexander’s popular Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife (Simon & Schuster, 2012). The book, which once topped the New York Times best-seller list, adds to a growing corpus of volumes...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 26, 2012 | Opinion
In 1991, Van Morrison released “Hymns to the Silence,” a two-CD tour de force that seems at least partly autobiographical. Morrison’s folk-tinged and bluesy rock ‘n’ roll on this album, as across his whole career, has an indefinable...
by Bruce Prescott | Nov 26, 2012 | Opinion
While half the nation has been celebrating and half of the nation has been mourning the re-election of Barack Obama, another election has barely been noticed outside Alabama. Judge Roy Moore, who planted a 2.5-ton Ten Commandments monument in a courthouse and then...
by Bob Newell | Nov 26, 2012 | Opinion
If 9:30 p.m. seems past a small child’s bedtime, you know you are not in Greece. When my Greek friends tell me that Greek schedules are about three hours behind other countries, I know they are not talking about time zones, but about a generalized Grecian...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 24, 2012 | Opinion
Most Anglicans found less than expected to be thankful for this week: after years of planning, promotion, and hot debate, a popular measure that would have allowed women to serve as bishops was stymied by a small-but-just-large-enough block of conservative laity....
