Category: Spirituality
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A Christmas column — or maybe not
I WAS PLANNING TO WRITE a Christmas column, what with it being Christmas and all, but then I started reading the newspaper and now I'm not sure I can. Apparently…
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It’s official: Butch Davis is a genius
IT'S OFFICIAL. Butch Davis is a genius. I told my wife, a couple of years ago, when the University of North Carolina head football coach hired Everett Withers as his…
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Wednesday June 11, 1969: Commencement
THE GRADUATION EXERCISES for George Washington High School were to be held on Wednesday, June 11, 1969. The day before, we did a dry run. One of the faculty marshals…
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A prayer for my nation and my world
This is what was on my heart when I woke up this morning. Sometimes I make jokes about praying, this is not one of those times. *** I PRAY FOR…
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What does true human greatness look like?
THIS YEAR A GREAT MAN passed from this earth. That man was Robinson O. Everett. Characterized by his Duke Law School colleague Clark Havigurst as "a gentle, unassuming force of…
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The Reverend Ike dead and gone, but not forgotten
AMERICA'S LEADING "Green Evangelist" died last month. No, Al Gore is doing fine — as far as I know. It was the Reverend Frederick Eikerenkoetter II who passed from this…
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A mediated political pop quiz
TEST YOUR POLITICAL IQ to learn what you may not have learned from the massive mass media. 1) In the first apparent action by the Obama administration which might lead…
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Fascists and free-speech fiascos
I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH news coverage it received, but on Tuesday April 14th, my wife and I attended an event on the University of North Carolina campus. We came…
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Commissioner for a day, at least
I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU but I have been watching way too much basketball lately — which has the side effect for me of evoking my guy-like tendency to fix…
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Extending love to those in pain
AS A CHRISTIAN IT IS MY DUTY to aid the afflicted, to comfort those suffering hardship and to extend loving care to those in pain. So, in this season of…
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