This week’s Courier Herald column: I got a text from a friend a few weeks ago. It was the kind of question that deserved more than a quick text reply. She’s worried. She wanted to know what I thought about the state of the union. Specifically, she asked if I thought we were living in
This week’s Courier Herald column: This is Easter Week. It’s also the week we sent the Georgia General Assembly home from their annual 40 day stay in Atlanta. The overlap on the calendar lends itself to a few words on the juxtaposition of religion and politics, but the focus today will be on a much
This week’s Courier Herald column: Social conservatives are especially dejected after the 2020 elections. Many are wondering where to go from here. Some doubt the future of the country. I know some who are openly questioning their beliefs and how a result they were entirely sure was not going to happen was allowed to become
This week’s Courier Herald column: We’re now well into the holiday season and, thankfully and mercifully, the home stretch of 2020. It’s been a year of a pandemic, social unrest, and an election that refuses to end. Many of us will not be sad to see this year conclude. I have no issue with the
This week’s Courier Herald column: I don’t have the answers. At this point, I’m not even sure we’re asking the right questions. A nation already on edge over experiencing a public health crisis simultaneously with the greatest economic challenge in a century is now dealing with public protests and riots. Our divided nation seems only
So many of our traditions are being shattered during this Great Time Out. There’s been no first day of baseball season. March Madness took on a whole new meaning. And I’m sure somewhere, in a lab near Augusta, scientists are feverishly working on how to make dogwoods and azaleas bloom in November. For Christians, Easter
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” None of us could have planned this six months ago. If we had tried, we would have been disregarded as alarmists at best, and conspiracy theorists at worst. And yet, here we are. We remain trapped in the present. Many of our past plans
The NRA returned the Delta favor to Casey Cagle by endorsing his gubernatorial bid. In a statement from the campaign, Cagle said: “I’m a lifetime member of the NRA, and I’m proud of my unwavering record for the Second Amendment. Like the NRA, I believe the framers of the Constitution meant what they said when
This week’s Courier Herald column: Several questions will be answered this week in the Georgia General Assembly that will have an impact on Georgia’s long term future. These will bleed into upcoming campaigns and, with most statewide offices up for election, will thus send an early signal of how Georgia will be governed as well
When does the debate on abortion begin? Probably not with tax bills. Certainly not with tax bills if you are NARAL, which took issue over Karen Handel’s “pushing” the new GOP tax bill*. In other words: NARAL views Handel’s seat as vulnerable and on that we agree. In a statement released ahead of Thursday’s vote
