by Mike Harton | Oct 7, 2014 | Opinion
There are many professing Christians among those who oppose two issues facing the region of Virginia and city of Richmond where I live: immigration reform and bus rapid transit. Many of these folks have little sympathy for those in our country without documentation...
by Mike Harton | Mar 1, 2013 | Opinion
In a previous column, I suggested that an assumed culture of violence prevails among many of those who are most vocal in defense of gun ownership. They are not alone, however. Even many non-gun owners live in fear, mistrust and suspicion. Therefore, I urged that...
by Mike Harton | Feb 20, 2013 | Opinion
The Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts recently had a good column titled “Fantasies vs. Real World Tragedies.” He described the lunacy of at least two sides of the gun issue (indeed, there are many sides). I agree with Pitts: the lunacy continues on what...
by Mike Harton | Jul 14, 2009 | Opinion
Two recent conversations haunt me. An old college friend, a leading-edge baby boomer (age 63) whom I knew to be a person of faith in college, told me he and his wife “had given up on the institutional church.” The other conversation was with an educated...
by Mike Harton | Sep 5, 2000 | Opinion
I really don’t want to get old before my time. But I’m beginning to think my grandparents were right: the world really is “going to hell in a hand basket.” I’m talking about the demise of civility. Witness these recent examples: In...
