by Robert Guffey | Oct 8, 2012 | Opinion
Our twin grandchildren, Aiden and Hannah, recently stayed over for a weekend while Mom Carissa and big sister Lily were away on retreat with the middle school church youth group. I had almost forgotten how verbal 2-year-olds can be, though you do have to do a little...
by Neville Callam | Oct 8, 2012 | Opinion
Decades ago, in her influential book on lying, philosopher Sisela Bok asserted that lying has implications for the morality of the choices we make in both private and public life. In the main, Bok advanced strong arguments for the adoption of the principle of...
by Robert Parham | Oct 8, 2012 | Opinion
After 21 years of heading up the Baptist Center for Ethics (BCE) and a dozen years of EthicsDaily.com, I’ve learned a lot about faith in the public square. Here’s a short list. First, it takes a long time to say hello to Baptists and a lot of time to tell...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 5, 2012 | Opinion
By John Pierce While reading Sky magazine on a Delta flight last year, I got a chuckle out of a comment by Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti. It was in one of those personal Q&A pieces. “My wife, Ashley, always surprises me with a birthday cake from...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 5, 2012 | Opinion
I know the correct phrase is “read ’em and weep,” and that it’s more commonly used when someone displays an awesome winning hand in poker (I know this from movies), but I couldn’t escape some weepy thoughts when I saw that the Weekly...
by Mike Parnell | Oct 5, 2012 | Opinion
Movies have played with the idea of time travel in many ways. Most famous is probably the trio of “Back to the Future” movies. In them, we see how changes in the past, wrought by one from the future, can create huge ripples in time. In...
