by Martin Marty | Feb 16, 2012 | Opinion
Keeping an eye and ear on hourly, daily and weekly incidents and trends in zones where “religion and public life” intersect is one thing. Taking looks at such incidents and trends in half-century cycles is another. These longer-range surveys provide...
by Ircel Harrison | Feb 16, 2012 | Opinion
Management guru W. Edwards Deming is reported to have said, “Yesterday’s solutions are today’s problems.” Solutions or responses to needs are formulated for a particular time, place and context. Often they deal with the immediate problem, but...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 15, 2012 | Opinion
The winter of 2011-12, if it can be called that, seems destined to be one for the record books. The entire lower 48 states are experiencing warmer weather and less snow than usual, while northern areas are colder — Valdez, Alaska has had 10 feet more snow than...
by Cliff Vaughn | Feb 15, 2012 | Opinion
Certain biblical passages make me laugh every time I read or hear them. Most of them, I realize, weren’t preserved for my 21st-century sense of humor. Nevertheless, personality and culture mix with the ancient text to yield, for me, profound hilarity in some...
by Leroy Seat | Feb 15, 2012 | Opinion
“Remember the Maine, to Hell with Spain!” That was a war cry widely heard in the Unites States after the USS Maine sunk 114 years ago today in 1898. The cause of that sinking is unclear even today, but popular opinion in the United States in the weeks...
by Bruce Prescott | Feb 15, 2012 | Opinion
News reports for the last few months have been filled with dire accounts about Iran’s growing capacity for enriching uranium, the United States’ exertion of greater pressure on Iran by strengthening sanctions and tightening an embargo on Iranian oil, and...
