by Monty Self | Apr 13, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
The U.S. was debating the merits of the Affordable Care and Patient Protection Act in 2009 when, in the heat of debate, then Governor Sarah Palin proclaimed that the Democrat health care expansion plan would create “death panels.” ACA Section 1233 on “Advance Care...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 12, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Want to start an argument with a group of grammarians? Just bring up the subject of exclamation points, and the verbal sparring will begin. SOCK!! WHAM!! POW!! Grammar purists and most writers argue for self-restraint. Mark Twain, in an 1895 essay on writing funny...
by Paul Lewis | Apr 12, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I had to ground some of the outlets in the first house we bought. It was dirty work. The process required entering a cramped crawl space that was inhabited by camelback crickets, a species that looked too much like the face-hugger in the movie “Alien” for me to be...
by John D. Pierce | Apr 11, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
This month marks 40 years since founding editor Walker Knight and his associate Susan Taylor, along with a horde of volunteers at Oakhurst Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia, rolled out the first edition of what was then called SBC Today. As a young campus minister...
by James Alexander | Apr 11, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Perhaps you recall the case of Andrea Yates? In 2021, she drowned her five children. Their crime? Sin — or potential sin. Ms. Yates believed that sin in the lives of her children would send them to hell. She killed them to save them. Nuts? Of course. But you must...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 10, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Harriet Tubman has many titles. Therese Taylor-Stinson’s new book Walking the Way of Harriet Tubman: Public Mystic and Freedom Fighter introduces readers to the mystical side of the Underground Railroad’s most famous conductor. Not to be confused with following in her...
