Opinion
Column – Harmony: The obvious gift we take for granted
By Charles Qualls By winning a Grammy, the great actress Viola Davis recently completed her career EGOT. If ...
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Column – Reading, writing helped emancipate African-American women
By Tonya Sinclair Swindell Reading and writing are privileges that I sometimes take for granted. Writing is therapy ...
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Column – Do you want to be called great?
My friend Paul, the college football coach, always got the same question every time a new season rolled ...
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Column – ‘Just Do It’ is more than a slogan, it’s a call to action
For those of us who were in high school in the 1990s, we cannot hear or read the ...
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column – Claiming to See
Maybe you’ve experienced something like this. An accident happens and three witnesses all say they saw it. But ...
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Column – It’s best to end the day on a positive note
It had been a rough evening. Timothy was upset when I had him turn off a video game ...
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Column – Amid shrill abortion debate, Brewer bill merits support
It doesn’t appear that Republican legislators have an appetite for aggressively pursuing abortion restrictions in the Virginia General ...
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Column – Attention spans are shortening
There are numerous research studies in recent months that confirm that attention spans of both children and adults ...
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Column – Remembering what childhood was like
This past Sunday I attended some family business at our church, so to speak. The sermon I gave ...
Opinion
Two Powerful Stories and a Distraction
By Charles Qualls Every time I prepare to teach or address this story in a message, I realize ...