by Zach Dawes Jr | Dec 28, 2022 | News
More than one third (39%) of U.S. adults believe that we are “living in the end times,” according to a Pew Research Center report published December 8. Nearly half (47%) of all U.S. Christians agree, with Historically Black (76%) and evangelical (63%) Protestants...
by Chase Caldwell | Nov 22, 2022 | Opinion
We’re back on flood watch. And we’d almost forgotten there was such a thing. After a summer of nation-wide droughts and dry-spells, the once-mighty Mississippi had shrunk from its swollen spring heights to a seeming trickle this fall. In my hometown of Vidalia,...
by Jim Hopkins | Sep 14, 2020 | Opinion
Apocalypse. Armageddon. Plague. Judgment Day. Even in the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of the country noted for its low percentage of church attenders, religious language is being used by many to describe the recent fires, smoke-filled air and Wednesday’s surreal...
by Guy Sayles | May 1, 2020 | Opinion
I’ve written and deleted a half-dozen posts about the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve deleted them because you don’t need my opinions about medicine, and you don’t want my political commentary. What I mostly wrote was a series of rants – cathartic, but not for the record....
by Ken Sehested | Apr 3, 2020 | Opinion
The root meaning of “apocalyptic” is not “catastrophe” but “unveiling.” That which was hidden is now revealed. It is not the brutal, final flourish of history, but the opportunity for renewal, the chance to begin anew. Simply typing the word – apocalypse – makes my...