by Guy Sayles | Apr 17, 2012 | Opinion
Editor’s note: Guy Sayles, pastor of First Baptist Church in Asheville, N.C., offered the following remarks at the April 12, 2012, meeting of the Buncombe County Board of Education. “While the statement is content-specific,” says Sayles, “it...
by Ircel Harrison | Apr 17, 2012 | Opinion
How do you explain taxes to a 3-year-old? I was leaving the house one day to pick up the completed tax return from our preparer. Cooper, our grandson, asked where I was going. When I told him, I could tell that the idea of “taxes” was not on his radar. I...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 16, 2012 | Opinion
I’m keeping this short in hopes that readers will go immediately to this eye-opening post by Aaron Weaver, who has done careful work in demonstrating that Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission...
by Leroy Seat | Apr 16, 2012 | Opinion
April 15, 1912. If you have been paying attention to the media at all, you recognize that as the date that Titanic, the majestic ocean liner, sank. Most of you probably know more about the Titanic than I do. For some reason I have not been greatly interested in it, in...
by Robert Parham | Apr 16, 2012 | Opinion
The Ten Commandments trump the Sermon on the Mount in Tennessee, the buckle on the Bible Belt, where repeated efforts have been made to post the Ten Commandments in public buildings without corresponding efforts to post the Sermon on the Mount. Most recently,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 14, 2012 | Opinion
In 1960, Elvis Presley recorded a song that had been written in 1926, and it became an immediate hit: “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” set records for the speediest rise on the Billboard Top 40 chart and remained at Number One for six weeks. The song is...
