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We live in a culture of controversies. Everything today is controversial or has the potential to become controversial. Political correctness has moved like a virus through the culture, infecting normally reasonable people with a madness that is, well, maddening.... Continue Reading »

We are in that time of year that is filled with so many holiday activities. It is the time of year when many people will be depressed. The Christmas season is uplifting for many, but for a significant number... Continue Reading »

The people of Rocky Mount, N.C., have a problem. They cannot decide what one of history's most famous leaders looks like.... Continue Reading »

?I pray every night for our football team. I pray every night for my family. That's because I?m not in control of the football team or my family. Somebody else is.? That's the sentiment of Byrnes High School head... Continue Reading »

Frankly, I didn’t much like the name, but I surely did like the cake.... Continue Reading »

Beginning Dec. 26, Brett Miller's kart will be on display for the following year at Daytona USA in Daytona, Fla., Miller, a North Greenville University junior, is being honored with the display after winning four of the World Karting... Continue Reading »

When Charleston Southern kicker Nick Ellis saw the scoreboard flashing ?Big South Champions? and the ?21? lit up in the yard-line indicator, he thought of his friend and roommate, Bucs receiver Eddie Gadson.... Continue Reading »

This letter is in response to the letter by David Brien in the Dec. 1 edition of the Courier. I specifically wish to address the comment that ?if such practice and decision-making in this one state are by any... Continue Reading »

Valuable, and even essential, insight into the meaning of the birth of Jesus can be gained by considering the events of that sacred moment in divine and human history through the eyes and in the mind of the Christmas... Continue Reading »

?Maximize what advances the kingdom, and minimize what doesn't,? Jim Goodroe, director of missions for the Spartanburg County Network, urged South Carolina Baptists in the convention sermon during their annual meeting in Columbia, Nov. 15.... Continue Reading »

God did not call believers to bring the world to the church, but he called for believers to take the gospel message to the world, Jerry White, president of the South Carolina Baptist Convention, reminded messengers during his Nov.... Continue Reading »

Boots Holder refers to his recent months in North Peru as 'the best and worst of times.? As a strategy-coordinator missionary, Holder and his REAP North Peru team use hundreds of volunteers from the United States to share the... Continue Reading »