by Scott Stearman | Jan 20, 2022 | Opinion
It’s easy to get weary looking at the international headlines. Authoritarianism is on the rise in Russia and China. The former seems ready to invade Ukraine, and the latter has roughly one million of its citizens in concentration camps. Myanmar (Burma) is in the midst...
by Scott Stearman | Dec 9, 2021 | Opinion
The debate over the reality of climate change is over. The evidence is both obvious and compelling. The debate over the cause of this rise in temperatures should be over. The global consensus of climate scientists that climate change is caused by human action is close...
by Scott Stearman | Nov 10, 2021 | Opinion
A brutal military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, ended nearly a decade of a democratic experiment in Myanmar (Burma). The military seized control and declared a year-long state of emergency. The country’s elected leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of her party are now under...
by Scott Stearman | Oct 14, 2021 | Opinion
Poverty is not a natural phenomenon. It’s not like a tornado or an earthquake. Poverty is not a necessary state. Nor is it something that falls from the sky. “In the U.S., grim poverty is a tragedy, that great wealth makes a sin,” William Sloan Coffin once declared. I...
by Scott Stearman | Sep 2, 2021 | Opinion
Let me assume, dear reader, that you are a person of faith. This faith may be strictly defined (formed in Sunday School, sub-set Baptist, sub-set Baptist “brand,” sub-set longtime member at First Baptist and so forth). Or you may be a seeker; someone who is “spiritual...
