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Opinion - Topics from April, 2017

Sacrifice

Posted by
Walter Geiger
in Opinion
Friday, April 21. 2017
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Yep, it’s baseball season.

I remember the day I fell in love with baseball. It was 1965 or so. A friend invited me to go with him and his family to watch a game at Gordon Military College. After the game, one of the Bulldogs gave me a cracked bat (this was in the dark ages, before aluminum bats, speaking of which, the “ping of the bat” can’t compete with the “crack of the bat”). [Full Story »] 

Resurrection surrounds you if you just look

Posted by
Walter Geiger
in Opinion
Thursday, April 13. 2017
It is Holy Week, the time of year when Christians celebrate the crucifixion and subsequent resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Spring begins on March 20, the vernal equinox. Easter has long been observed on the first Sunday after the first full moon of Spring. That is why the date of the Easter observance varies from year to year.

That is the tradition of the dating of Easter but there is evidence of resurrection all around you if you will just look for it. [Full Story »] 

Yes is harder than no

Posted by
Walter Geiger
in Opinion
Wednesday, April 5. 2017
By Mike Ruffin

Unless you’ve been on a vacation to the moon (and if you have, I wish you’d taken me with you), you are aware that on March 24, the Republican leadership of the United States House of Representatives pulled the American Health Care Act (AHCA) from consideration before it could be voted on. They did so because they didn’t have the votes to pass it. [Full Story »] 
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