DR. DON NEWBURY
The market for masks has changed dramatically during the past year. Until then, they were largely worn by health professionals, New Orleans Mardi Gras revelers, and, of course, robbers counting on ‘em to provide incognito status. That was then and this is now.
Around the globe, rank and file wear them during all waking moments, many with multiple layers to better protect themselves from COVID-19.
My Uncle Mort, whose brain has churned with unlikely gimmicks during most of his 108 years, is quietly collecting washable masks. He’s tying them in bundles of 12 for resale later. “On that great getting’ up morning when we no longer need to wear them ‘frontards, I think we’ll wear ‘em ‘backards’ so we can straighten our ears,” he contends…
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Longtime Shades Mountain Baptist pastor set to retire
Photo by Erin Nelson.
Danny Wood, longtime pastor at Shades Mountain Baptist Church, sits in the front pew of the worship center. Ã
Shades Mountain Baptist Pastor Danny Wood preaches in October 2020.
âThis is where weâll be forever,â Wood recalled saying at the time.
Six months later, Wood resigned his position with the former South Central Bell company, and moved his family to Fort Worth, Texas, where he attended Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary after feeling that God was calling him into Christian ministry.
Fourteen years later, Wood returned to Shades Mountain Baptist Church: the church he had once called home, the church in which he had been married and ordained, and the church from which heâll retire in after more than 20 years as lead pastor.
My Turn: A syllabus for the sponsors of ‘divisive concepts’ legislation
Published: 2/24/2021 10:41:57 AM
An open letter to Reps. Jason Osborne, Keith Ammon, and Glenn Cordelli, sponsors of House Bill 544, a bill that addresses the propagation of so-called “divisive concepts”: Having read HB 544, a bill relative to the “propagation of divisive concepts,” and having compared it to a September 2020 presidential executive order, I was struck by the repetition of ideas in both documents that are simply inaccurate and, sadly, fly in the face of contemporary history.
Solid research has demonstrated that, though we have made appreciable progress toward a racially just society, much structural, institutional racism remains and it will not simply disappear of its own accord. It is simply too integral and too invisibly ingrained in our society for reasonable people to expect that to happen.
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