NEWS
By Leonard Pitts Jr | January 24, 2010
H ave you heard about the Jesus rifles? ABC News broke the story last week. It seems there was this fellow named Glyn Blindon, who used weapons of war to speak for his faith. Mr. Blindon, who died in a 2003 plane crash, was the founder of Trijicon, a Michigan company that has a $600 million contract to provide gun sights to the U.S. military. Apparently he had a policy, which survived him, of inscribing coded references to Bible verses on the gun sights he manufactured for high-powered rifles used by U.S. service personnel.
FEATURES
By Jill Rosen and The Baltimore Sun | January 31, 2012
Just what is this little cub up to? Good thing its mama is there to catch him or her. The spectacled bear, just four months old, was playing at the zoo in Cali. (Tremarctos ornatus), born in captivity four months ago, is seen with its mother at the zoo in Cali Zoo in Colombia.
NEWS
January 20, 2012
Has there been a more polarizing figure in professional sports over the past year than Tim Tebow? Whether it was his string of fourth-quarter comebacks, thrilling overtime playoff victory over the Steelers or public displays of his faith, Mr. Tebow generates a wide range of reactions from the public. Mr. Tebow's faith is an integral part of the player, the man and the human being. Today, when media outlets are littered with players' indiscretions and mistakes, it's refreshing to see someone who practices what he preaches.
NEWS
November 18, 2011
I read with great interest that the supercommittee isn't quite sure they will be able to reach agreement on their assignment to find a deficit reduction package that will put this country back on the road to financial responsibility. What they might do is agree on is an outline of smaller concessions and defer the most difficult decisions until after the 2012 elections. This, of course, comes as no surprise to most Americans who have little faith in the ability of our elected officials to make bipartisan decisions for the good of the country instead of "kicking the can down the road" for someone else to deal with.
NEWS
By Mary Johnson, Special to The Baltimore Sun | January 15, 2011
Colonial Players' current production of "The Diviners" is a powerful, poetic one. Winner of the 1979 American College Theater Festival, and written by Jim Leonard while in his mid-20s, "The Diviners" raises profound questions about faith, fear and family that remain relevant. Set in the fictional Indiana town of Zion during the Great Depression, the play centers around 14-year-old farm boy Buddy Layman, who has special abilities and handicaps. When the boy appears in the opening scene, he is about to discover underground water with his divining rod, seemingly a miraculous talent to the witnessing neighbors.
SPORTS
By Phil Rogers | July 17, 2011
There's no way for any of us to know how Josh Hamilton feels these days, but if you ask him he will do his best to let you know. That says a lot in itself. The guy who might have the best idea about what swirls through Hamilton's head is Dodgers coach Manny Mota. It was Mota who had the misfortune to line a ball into the seats at Dodger Stadium in 1970, striking 14-year-old Alan Fish in the head. The teenager died four days later. "I'm sad for Josh, because I know how he feels now," Mota has said.