Opinion

It’s a bad time to work for the Orlando chamber of commerce.

The fantasy world created there by Disney World, Epcot, Universal et. al. was harshly welcomed back to reality by a sickening series of events over the past week. [Full Story »] 

By Mike Ruffin

I’m serving as interim pastor of The Rock Baptist Church. A couple of Sundays ago, we had lunch together after the worship service. Everybody brought food.

There were about 30 people there. We could have fed 150. We had at least 12 baskets of food left over. It was all very Biblical. It was also lots of fun. Midway Baptist Church, the church to which my parents first took me when I was 10 days old (as my mother never tired of reminding me), and in which I was baptized into the church and ordained to the ministry, has been having Homecoming on the second Sunday in June ever since John the Baptist baptized Jesus. [Full Story »] 

By Walter Geiger

Some of my earliest memories are of watching my Daddy and Granddaddy shave.

I would stand in the bathroom and watch in awe as they lathered up and cast off the previous night’s crop of whiskers with a big old safety razor. Sometimes, they would let me coat my face with shaving cream then remove it from my whiskerless skin with the razor without a blade in it. I felt so grown. [Full Story »]