by Linda Cross | Sep 5, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
New York Times essayist William Safire dedicated his column one Sunday in 1986 to the phrase “Enough Already.” He was responding to earlier columns in The Boston Globe, The Guardian of London and Newsweek. These were the President Bill Clinton years. According to...
by Merianna Harrelson | Mar 3, 2022 | Opinion
I heard a horn honk from behind. I turned the car on and moved up the six feet. We were inching closer to getting swabbed again. This site was giving rapid tests and by the time you finished the winding journey down the street, in front of the urgent care and to the...
by Scott Dickison | Jul 30, 2021 | Opinion
Wilderness, again. This was the response of a pastor friend of mine this past February when we entered our second COVID-Lent. It was a sentiment shared by many pastors. Of course, it was during Lent of 2020 that the world shut down. At that time, the lectionary texts...
by Dennis Bickers | Oct 18, 2013 | Opinion
Gil Rendle’s book, “Journey in the Wilderness: New Life for Mainline Churches,” compares where the church is today with the wilderness journey Moses and the Israelites were on for 40 years. Near the end of the book, Rendle specifically addresses the...
by David Hughes | Feb 21, 2013 | General
A sermon by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston Salem, N.C. Psalm 91:1-2, 9-16; Luke 4:1-13 A woman brought home a very expensive dress. Her husband asked, “Why did you buy that dress, dear? You know we can’t afford it.” She responded, “Well honey,...
