Dec 02 2016
The Fringe Is the Majority By Reggie L. Williams, 11-30-2016 Like many people in the nation, I was deeply disturbed when I stayed up late watching the election results on Nov. 8. This country elected Donald Trump to succeed the nation’s first African-American president — a deed that was in no way coincidental. …
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Nov 29 2016
The Observer’s weekly column in the November 24 2016 CE edition of the Arkansas Times The Observer’s grandfather on our mother’s side was a crackerjack fella. Grew up in the sandy hills north of Conway. County boy, through and through. During hog-killing time in December 1941, the story in our family goes, when word …
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Nov 20 2016
The Observer’s weekly column in the November 17 2016 CE edition of the Arkansas Times Dear young people, You’re probably not reading this. Not many of you, anyway, because you don’t read newspapers anymore. You get your news from the Twitter or the Facebook or some website I’m too old to have even heard …
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Nov 14 2016
Dear editor: While the presidential election is over, the same old and tiresome rhetoric will continue to be heard for weeks and months to come, especially from the radio and television news programs. They will analyze the election and then analyze the analysis of the results — ad nauseam. Even before the …
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Nov 09 2016
We Are to Plant Christian Guideposts Given the election results that came in through the night, it is now apparent that the United States is traveling on a highway that is yet to be mapped. For many of us, the old, familiar guideposts of the Christian ethical life, including peace, patience, kindness, generosity, and …
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Nov 08 2016
A sermon preached by Larry Benfield, the bishop of Arkansas, on November 6, 2016, at St. Luke’s Church in Hot Springs, Arkansas. This year’s church calendar is off by about one day, sort of like our internal time clocks are off by about an hour this morning. Halloween came on its appointed day, Monday, …
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Oct 27 2016
A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump By Roger O. Friedland, October 26, 2016 What does the love of Jesus have to do with Trump? How to explain his overwhelming support from evangelical voters, who—for more than three decades—have formed the bastion of the Christian right? According to a Pew …
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