by Alyssa Aldape | Jun 10, 2022 | Opinion
I was almost suspended from class in fifth grade for taking the Lord’s name in vain. The crime took place after a classmate showed us a cool new math trick for the nine times table, and my response was an awe-filled “oh my lord!” My tablemates looked at me with shock,...
by Monty Self | Jul 12, 2021 | Opinion
There are more firearms in the United States than there are people. It’s estimated we have over 400 million firearms in private ownership. That is 120 guns per 100 citizens. Around 850 million civilian firearms are in circulation worldwide, and 46% of those are in the...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 27, 2021 | News
A slim majority (53%) of the U.S. supports stricter gun regulations, according to a Pew Research Center report published April 20. This is seven points below the result in a Pew survey conducted in September 2019. It is the first time since 2017 that the desire for...
by Merianna Harrelson | Aug 9, 2019 | Opinion
I was nervous. It was Saturday morning, and the sermon I had written and prepared felt unfinished and just wasn’t sitting right. I don’t like entering into the weekend with that kind of feeling, but after years of preaching every Sunday, I knew this meant I was...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 8, 2019 | Opinion
The communities of El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, were attacked by domestic terrorism last weekend. Family and friends were enjoying a wonderful weekend when their American dream was destroyed by two gunmen filled with rage, anger and hate. When the bullets fell...