by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 4, 2023 | Opinion
We put a good man in the ground last week, or at least, the shell he last inhabited. It wasn’t what it used to be, before his 94 years took their toll. He wasn’t the only good man I knew, but the only one I called Daddy, even when he no longer knew what to call me, or...
by Justin Cox | Dec 29, 2022 | Opinion
My great-grandmother Grandmaw Martin used to say, “Nothing good happens after midnight.” As a young man, I lived the opposite of her statement. In the witching hours, I experienced some of my most pleasurable, fool-induced joys and a series of brushes with...
by Starlette Thomas | Dec 16, 2022 | Opinion
I hate to be a Christmas party pooper, but this is not “the most wonderful time of the year” for everyone. For many families, the birth of Jesus will be overshadowed by the death of a loved one. “Check on your strong friends.” “You never know what someone is going...
by Mitch Randall | Nov 23, 2022 | Opinion
Thanksgiving in the U.S. is just a day away, and millions of Americans will gather around tables to offer “thanks” for the many blessings bestowed upon them this past year. I will not be one of them. On Saturday, November 20, 2022, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a...
by Randall Balmer | Oct 19, 2022 | Opinion
I wept in church recently. Didn’t see it coming, but during the refrain of “When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder” there it was. No one sings the old gospel songs like that anymore. Evangelicals perform what they call “praise music,” a kind of dreamy meditation that makes...
