by Colin Harris | Sep 28, 2017 | Opinion
Education is more than information. The late Jean Hendricks, a wise dean in one of Mercer University’s academic units, reminded our teaching team of this frequently. She meant, of course, that while information is essential for living as an informed participant...
by Jim Somerville | Sep 22, 2017 | Opinion
I may have pushed too hard in my sermon last Sunday. For three weeks after white nationalists rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia, I mentioned racism in my sermons and how we need to root it out of our hearts and out of our nation. I received an email from one...
by Ray Higgins | Sep 7, 2017 | Opinion
Race is one of the primary relationship issues in our lifetime and in our daily lives. Some of us lived during segregation. Some of us remember the first years of integration. We have personal experiences that have shaped us, bothered us, challenged us, inspired us,...
by J. Michael "Mickey" Robertson | Sep 6, 2017 | Opinion
I thought that after two sermons that touched on the issue, and a column for EthicsDaily.com, I could talk about something else, at least for a little while. My church, Elk Creek Baptist, holds an 8:30 a.m. service on church-owned property on Lake Anna in Louisa,...
by Colin Harris | Sep 5, 2017 | Opinion
Teachers are often accused of thinking that education is the solution to every problem. While such thinking is reason to believe the truth of the old saying, “Every generalization is false, including this one,” there is good evidence that knowledge and...
