by mcl | Feb 1, 2016 | Columns, Editor's Letter
“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor...
by mcl | Feb 1, 2016 | Columns, Covers, Recent Cover Stories
By MARILYN TINNIN The term financial distress is an understatement when it comes to describing what Reverend Chris Diggs discovered when he arrived at his new pastorate in the summer of 2013. The once proud Burns United Methodist Church, the oldest African American...
by mcl | Jan 3, 2016 | Columns, Editor's Letter
In a way, the world is a great liar…At the end it gives its greatest tributes to generosity, honesty, courage, mercy, talents well used, talents that, brought into the world, make it better. That’s what we talk about in eulogies, because that’s what’s important. Peggy...
by mcl | Jan 3, 2016 | Columns, Covers, Recent Cover Stories
By MARILYN TINNIN “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27 “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you...
by mcl | Dec 2, 2015 | Columns, Editor's Letter
It was Christmas 1864, a time when the nation was divided. The Civil War, which was in no way civil, had brought such suffering to families on both sides of the struggle. It would be four more months before Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the...
