by Trevor Barton | Nov 8, 2011 | Opinion
In early 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders continued plans for a Poor People’s Campaign. It would take place in the spring in Washington, D.C. The poor and those in solidarity with them would take up temporary residence and march...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 7, 2011 | Opinion
The New York Times has an interesting online feature about Michael Pearl, pastor of a small independent church in Pleasantville, Tennessee, who has become both revered and reviled as an advocate of corporal punishment for disciplining children. Pearl self-published a...
by Leroy Seat | Nov 7, 2011 | Opinion
The UnitedNationsPopulationFund projected that the world population reached 7 billion people on Oct. 31. When I was born in 1938, the global human population was under 2.3 billion. So in my lifetime the population of the world has tripled, and then some. Population...
by Sybil D. Smith | Nov 7, 2011 | Opinion
For years I have been working in the health field – caring for older persons, teaching others to care for older persons and advocating for future needs of older persons. Sometimes I felt folk were not hearing me – especially 20 years ago when I started to raise...
by Reggie Warren | Nov 7, 2011 | Opinion
Church members view their pastors in many ways. Here are four views. The ruler One view holds that the pastor is the spiritual ruler of the church and that “he” should be deferred to and even obeyed. Such a pastor is placed on a pedestal as one who is...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 4, 2011 | Opinion
Today I’m not thinking about those plaques we see along the road that mark civil war sites or the birthplace of a president, but objects shaped by humans to make their lives better or more beautiful. Monday marked the U.S. release of A History of the World in...
