by John D. Pierce | Oct 4, 2011 | Opinion
By John Pierce My freshman daughter sent a text yesterday as she was making her way across the expansive University of Georgia campus. The Gideons were everywhere, she said, handing out copies of the New Testament. “Is that legal on a public university...
by Mark Woods | Oct 4, 2011 | Opinion
The series of catastrophes that has already pummeled the world’s economies, and which is not over yet by any means, has focused the minds of our policy-makers in a wonderful way. We would all agree that this is overdue; most of us have very little expertise in...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Oct 4, 2011 | Opinion
Until a few weeks ago, I had never heard of Camila Vallejo. Now I am fascinated by this charismatic student leader in Chile who has been shaking the political establishment in her country. She is spearheading a populist movement that has the right to “quality...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 3, 2011 | Opinion
I’ve been keeping tabs on a new member of the neighborhood, a large black and yellow garden spider who hangs her web between a holly bush and the post holding our community doggy-doo can. The spider’s bright colors stand out against the background of brown...
by Drew Smith | Oct 3, 2011 | Opinion
The Gospels are replete with stories of Jesus’ many encounters with the religious leaders in Jerusalem, and not all of them were pleasant. Jesus and these religious leaders debated and argued on just about every religious issue of the day. Healing on the...
by Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb | Oct 3, 2011 | Opinion
I have been praying hard for the last couple of weeks while trying to make something happen that I needed to happen in a right-now-Lord kind of a way. A couple of times I came at the Lord like the stubborn widow in the parable who pestered the unjust judge so much...