by Wendell Griffen | Apr 5, 2012 | Opinion
Each April 4, I remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., murdered on that date in 1968, 44 years ago in Memphis, Tenn., while supporting sanitation workers struggling to be paid decent wages and treated with dignity. On the eve of his assassination, King uttered his...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 4, 2012 | Opinion
It wasn’t that large, maybe three times the size of Winnie the Pooh’s “three acre wood,” but it was big enough to be magical to a boy who loved feeling close to the earth. We called them “the Spring Woods” because there was a...
by Colin Harris | Apr 3, 2012 | Opinion
It is a poignant brush stroke in Luke’s portrait of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem at the beginning of that crucial week that led from triumphal reception along the road to rejection and death at the hands of entrenched power. Jesus paused, looking at the...
by Robert Parham | Apr 3, 2012 | Opinion
Unless you are one of the three winners of the $656 million Mega Millions lottery, you lost your dream of being wealthy beyond imagination. You may be deeply disappointed that the lottery failed to deliver what you expected. If you are an informed advocate of public...
by Jen Smyers | Apr 3, 2012 | Opinion
“Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes, to turn aside the needy from justice and to rob the poor of my people of their right” (Isaiah 10:1–2). The U.S. immigration system is complex and dysfunctional. There are more than 185...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 3, 2012 | Opinion
Not long ago, I had to make a hurried trip to Atlanta and back. As I traveled, I noticed the restaurants and fast-food joints, or signs for them, which line our interstate highways. Applebee’s, Arby’s, Burger King, Chick-fil-A, Chili’s,...
