by John D. Pierce | Nov 23, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce An enjoyable day with family at SeaWorld in Orlando on Tuesday filled my theme park quota for this decade. So, on the following morning, I dropped them at the entrance to Universal Studios and headed for a more peaceful experience. My preference for...
by Colin Harris | Nov 23, 2012 | Opinion
We have had no shortage of helpful reflections on the recent election, which seems to have cleaned the windows a bit on our national landscape that has been changing for some time – to the surprise of many who seem not to have noticed. Among those reflections have...
by Tony Peck | Nov 23, 2012 | Opinion
In some ways it is a forgotten region of the world. It is the place of the legendary Silk Road, where exotic silks and spices travelled over some of the most beautiful but inhospitable mountain terrain in the world, in order to arrive at their destinations in Europe. ...
by Cliff Vaughn | Nov 23, 2012 | Opinion
As critics and commentators discuss Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” now playing in wide release, they typically mention two of Spielberg’s other historical dramas: “Schindler’s List” and “Saving Private Ryan.”...
by Mark Tidsworth | Nov 22, 2012 | Opinion
“These people who have been turning the world upside down have come here also.” – Description/criticism of Christian disciples in Thessalonica, as recorded in Acts 17:6 Read the Bible lately? The story is one of twists, turns, nomadic movements and heroic...
by Michael Helms | Nov 21, 2012 | Opinion
While walking around in a market in Cieneguilla, Peru, I noticed small bags of pecans hanging up for sale. There, amid many kinds of fruit I couldn’t identify, was a fruit I can walk out of my office and pick up in our church’s parking lot. We have about...
