by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 25, 2012 | Opinion
I recently renamed my blog. This is trivial information for anyone other than me, yet the motivation behind the change might prove meaningful. I recently began re-reading one of my favorite books, “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” by AnnieDillard. If you have not...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 24, 2012 | Opinion
In an essay about the 2000 presidential election, David Foster Wallace wondered why so many potential voters, especially younger ones, seemed so “uninterested in politics.” He concluded that, more than anything else, younger people found politics boring...
by Bob Newell | Apr 24, 2012 | Opinion
In 1623, just eight years before his own death, the English metaphysical poet John Donne wrote several works that were published under the not-so-spiffy marketing title, “Devotions upon Emergent Occasions.” While few of us can recall most of what Donne...
by Bob Cornwall | Apr 24, 2012 | Opinion
We live in an increasingly diverse society, which has led to what we might call a nativist backlash. “America for Americans,” you might say, but who is an American? Nativism isn’t new, as we can see by looking back in history. In the 19th century, it...
by Robert Parham | Apr 23, 2012 | Opinion
Thursday was a very good day – personally and for goodwill Baptists. It began at 1:13 a.m. with a confusing awareness that the hotel fire alarm was screeching, beeping, bleeping – however one would describe that sound. The alarm was a false one, one that...
by Jeanie McGowan | Apr 23, 2012 | Opinion
They are all around us – no matter where we live. They are so common that they seem invisible, or at least that’s often how they feel. “It wasn’t that I was treated badly. It’s just that I was completely ignored.” That’s a rather...
