On being a team player

During this bowl season I have enjoyed the steady diet of college football sandwiched in between commercials. However, the media timeouts have allowed me to read about one sport while watching another.Two friends gave me wonderful baseball books for Christmas. The one...

The year of … what?

With my mind in neutral this morning it is hard to be analytical. Yet this is the time to reflect on the past year — and, in this case, the closing decade.Having watched more TV and read more news than usual during the holidays, it seems that about all one could say...

A decade of Macon friends

Ten years ago today my family moved to Macon, Ga. from the North Atlanta suburbs. It was an event I once swore would never take place.In the summer of ‘77 I drove a van load of teens from Thomaston, Ga., on a July night to feast at the former Farrell’s Ice Cream...

Baptist College: Faculty Must Affirm Faith Statement

    Parents whose sons and daughters go to Truett-McConnell College in Cleveland, Ga., can rest assured that soon every faculty member will have expressed allegiance to the narrow doctrinal confines of the 2000 Baptist Faith and Message statement.     According to an...

So much for Christmas cheer

A terrorist suspect tries to blow up an airplane headed for Detroit. A woman tackles the Pope during Christmas Eve Mass. A Salvation Army officer is shot dead in Little Rock, Ark.So much for Christmas cheer. Violence is everywhere. Such was the world into which the...