Opinion

Support Fayette’s Biggest Food Drive

The Fayette County commissioners are spearheading a food drive on Sept. 14 called Fayette’s Biggest Food Drive. They have asked me to lead this project as the project manager. Our goal is to unite an entire county and fill a 53-foot trailer full of food.

This will be unprecedented act in our county and any surrounding county. We are not doing it for fame but to help the least among us — the hurting, the poor, the low income families and children, and our vulnerable seniors. Read More»

One little boy

Rick Ryckeley's picture

The little boy lived on an average street with average friends. They all lived in an average small town. He had average parents who had an average number of children for the time. In fact, if asked to describe his life in a single word, the little boy would surely have replied, “Average.”

Soon fate would take an interest in the little boy. His average life would start down a path toward becoming anything but.

At 8 he was rescued by firefighters and knew what he wanted to be. By 10, he witnessed the first spacewalk on a black and white television and knew what he wanted to be. Read More»

What good are sermons?

David Epps's picture

So, here’s the question: “What good are sermons?” You may be thinking, “I’ve been wondering that for years!”

In evangelical and charismatic churches, the sermon is the centerpiece, the focal point, the high water mark of the worship service (as least that’s what pastors think). In liturgical/sacramental churches, it may not be the center of the service but it’s still viewed as highly important.

When I was a young minister starting out, just in my early 20s, I was told that “For every minute of sermon, there should be an hour of study and preparation.” Read More»

What next after Boston?

Cal Thomas's picture

The last time there was a terrorist attack on America, we got the Department of Homeland Security and the Transportation Security Administration.

Each entity has spent billions to keep us safe, but neither could stop two brothers, Tamerlan, a permanent resident, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, a newly minted U.S. citizen, who lived in America and, reportedly, became radicalized jihadists, from killing and maiming innocent people at the Boston Marathon last week. Read More»

Religious liberty vs. ‘gay marriage’

Matt Barber's picture

Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence. – Psalm 73:6

“Gay pride” necessitates anti-Christian hate.

It must. “Gay marriage” and other “sexual orientation”-based laws do violence to freedom and truth. They are the hammer with which the postmodern left intends to bludgeon bloody religious liberty and the Judeo-Christian sexual ethic.

According to the unequivocal moral precepts of the Judeo-Christian tradition – explicit throughout both the Old and New Testaments – homosexual behavior is sin. Sin is evil. Read More»

Earth Day: For many, there’s little to celebrate

Benita Dodd's picture

“Climate change has many faces,” notes the website for Earth Day 2013, which took place Monday, April 22. “A man in the Maldives worried about relocating his family as sea levels rise, a farmer in Kansas struggling to make ends meet as prolonged drought ravages the crops ... the polar bear in the melting arctic, the tiger in India’s threatened mangrove forests. ...”

It’s a lengthy list. Unfortunately, it’s incomplete.

It’s time to add a few more faces to the pitiful environment painted by Earth Day organizers.

• An entrepreneur and small business shouldering the regulatory burden. Read More»

The progressive income tax turns 100

Dr. Paul Kengor's picture

[Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at Investor’s Business Daily.]

Maybe it’s a measure of progressives’ refusal to look back, to always move “forward.” Otherwise, they should be celebrating right now.

In fact, President Obama and fellow modern progressives/liberals should be ecstatic all this year, rejoicing over the centenary of something so fundamental to their ideology, to their core goals of government, to their sense of economic and social justice — to what Obama once called “redistributive change.” Read More»

Being Danny McGuire

Ronda Rich's picture

Little Danny McGuire was the scrawniest kid in class. He was so frail, so downright skinny that his dungarees clung to his bony hips only thanks to a well-worn brown belt that was pulled tight to the last notch, causing the fabric to gather in folds. What a sight he made with blue jeans cinched to the waist and little ol’ legs hidden somewhere in the yards of material. Read More»

Widowed mom, 77, seeks help

[Editor’s note: The following letter was left inside our reception window last week. With Mother’s Day upcoming, we don’t know who wrote it or who left it at our office. The letter has been edited for spelling and punctuation, but otherwise is unchanged from the original version.]

Dear Editor:

I want to start my letter by saying that I am a 77-year-old widow with a few problems and I want to share them with your readers and maybe they might wake up and smell the roses, so to speak. Read More»

SPLOST saves our core infrastructure

We have the go-ahead from the larger municipalities to begin creating the project lists for the two-year Core Infrastructure Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) plan.

We held three well-attended townhall meetings on the county’s stormwater concerns. The first order of business for the county is replacing aging culvert infrastructure and maintaining secure accounts for future maintenance so we do not get into another debacle like the one we are in now, 40 years in the making. Read More»