by Mark Woods | Aug 11, 2011 | Opinion
One of the most irritating accusations against Christianity, or faith in general, is that it causes conflict and sets one person against another. It would be wrong to deny that this has sometimes been the case; there is enough melancholy material in the history books...
by Drew Smith | Aug 11, 2011 | Opinion
In the first chapter of his 1967 book, “Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?”, Martin Luther King Jr. describes the state of the civil rights movement in America and the state of white America’s acceptance of African Americans. He writes:...
by Richard Pierard | Aug 11, 2011 | Opinion
Former U.S. Sen. Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon died at the age of 89 on Aug. 7. He was one of the last of a remarkable breed of politicians – a moderate Republican. In this day of intensely ideological politics, when RINOs (Republicans in Name Only) and Blue-dog...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 10, 2011 | Opinion
On Monday I reflected on the bad news so common to our newspapers lately … and today I read that newspapers are facing bad news of their own: there’s been a rash of newspaper thefts, apparently fueled by an “Extreme Couponing” craze. ...
by Chuck Warnock | Aug 10, 2011 | Opinion
The strange case of Warren Jeffs, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints’ leader, ended Aug. 4 in Jeffs’ conviction for child rape. We wonder how it is possible in the 21st century for hundreds of men and women to be deluded by...
by Andrew Gardner | Aug 10, 2011 | Opinion
I participated in a “scripturalreasoning” training session earlier this summer at the University of Virginia. I had been introduced to scriptural reasoning through a class that focused on analyzing and evaluating different ways in which Scripture is read....
