On #GivingTuesday, you proved us wrong
You have blessed us. Recently, we asked you to be a part of our #GivingTuesday online campaign. Our goal was $9,000 — more than we’ve…
Editorial
Editorial: Bless the teachers when no one else will
Children — not oil, not coal, not solar or wind power — are our greatest natural resource. You’d hardly know it from the way we…
#GivingTuesday 2017 — A big goal
It's almost here! #GivingTuesday — the Tuesday after Thanksgiving — has become an international day of giving. The movement, which started in 2012, kicks off…
Editorial: No more tearing down
Two months ago we ran a Views column by Jerrie Barber, who has preached the Gospel for 56 years. He talked about what constitutes a…
Can we agree to disagree?
‘I read the Chronicle, but I don’t always like what I read,” a brother in Christ once told me during a visit to Nashville, Tenn. “Brother,…
Editorial: The good in the bad
Hurricanes Harvey and Irma have brought out the best in Christians in Texas, Florida and beyond who are serving victims with love and compassion. From…
How $20 can teach a lesson
An Air Force colonel once taught me a humbling lesson about accepting generosity. It was the summer of 1961 and I was in Kaiserslautern, Germany,…
Looking for a ‘sound congregation?’ You’d better skip the one in Corinth
‘Do you know of a sound congregation in Boca Raton (or Hilton Head, Nashua, Honolulu)? We’re going to be there this weekend.” Jerrie Barber |…
Editorial: This time of crisis
The civil insurrection now occurring in our cities is a complex phenomenon, spawned by years of neglect, abuse and disdain of human dignity. Its flames…
The good work of real news
‘Have fellowship with every good work; give something to it.” Lynn McMillonThat was the wisdom of Otis Gatewood (1911-1999). When he spoke those words in…
