Bruce Prescott of Mainstream Baptist has put my strong feelings about today's news into good words: The most fundamental principle of morality is the Golden Rule. "Do unto...
My wife sometimes watches the television show "Clean Sweep," in which cluttered areas of selected homes are cleaned and redesigned by professionals. The...
I saw Tony Campolo on The Colbert Report this week, and must say he handled himself well. I especailly loved his description of a "Red-Letter Christian." It was a...
I remember watching a dramatic scene in the movie Master and Commander in which the doctor of the ship was hit with an accidental bullet. Since there was no other doctor...
Last week, I talked about the first of the Twelve Steps to recovery - "We admitted we were powerless over the effects of our separation from God and that our lives had become...
The first of the Twelve Steps to recovery states, "We admitted we were powerless over the effects of our separation from God - that our lives had become unmanageable." The...
I mentioned last week that I had been to a training event at WestCare. The seminar was entitled "Spirituality and Recovery," and it made me think of writing a series of...
While attending a workshop at the new WestCare facility in Ashcamp recently, one of the staff members told about a resident who came there proclaiming that he was an...
Left Out Most of us only pay passing interest to issues before the state legislators. They deal with so many bills that keeping up with them becomes, for all practical...
Every year in January a group of seminary students come to Pikeville as a part of their seventeen-day study of Appalachia. The course is sponsored by Columbia...
Not long ago I was upstairs editing video on one computer and surfing the Internet with another. And of course, my email program was set to check the email every minute,...
Dr. Don Harbuck While watching the end of the year news stories about famous people who died last year, I realized that my mentors are all dead. The last one died this...
Most folks don't often use the word "ubiquitous" in their daily conversation, but it is an increasingly important word for Eastern Kentucky and rural America. ...
My new 2006 planning calendar arrived last week. It is a denominational planning calendar with suggested Scripture verses for each Sunday, the Christian holidays...
I finally realized that the conservative Christians are simply taking the lead from their conservative President. Bush declared a preemptive war on Iraq because of weapons...
Since the U.S. House of Representatives has solved the problems of war, Medicaid, poverty, and such, they have moved on to the other pressing issue of our time - the "war on...
I think all the folderal about Merry Christmas is indeed a case of political correctness, but it's the fundamentalists who are insisting on the politically correct "Merry...
Even Cal Thomas doesn't believe in the Christmas wars. Here is a quote: The effort by some cable TV hosts and ministers to force commercial establishments into wishing...
Leonard Pitts from the Chicago Tribune has a good article debunking the war on Christmas. Here was a good paragraph: More to the point, why is pluralism so hard for these...
In many ways, the Old Testament is a primer on intolerant religion. God is described as exhibiting intolerance and anger towards humans in many Biblical passages: In Exodus...
Hidden away in all parts of Pikeville are secret treasures which can only be found by members of a new underground adventuring group known as "geocachers." While the...
I revised my previous post for use in the local newspaper this way: Recently, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., gave a speech protesting the renaming of the...
Recently, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., did a little grandstanding to his voter base when he pitched a fit over the renaming of the Christmas tree at the...
A recent series of articles in a statewide newspaper presented a very critical look at economic development incentives. With graphics and extensive interviews with...
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