Category Archives: Opinions
Knowing when to hold on and when to let go
When it comes to being knowledgeable, it’s not how much we know, but how much we understand. It’s one thing to 
have bags of information seeds stacked up in the barns of our minds, but more importantly, how many seeds of truth have been planted and nurtured to take root within our conscience?
Even the devil himself has more knowledge about God than the
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Tackling pizza, bitcoin and world hunger
This is a three-part column, so if the first part doesn’t grab you, move on to the next, etc.
So … here goes:
Part 1
The pizza wars are heating up in Easley. It seems like a new pizza joint is popping up about every other week.
According to my map search, there are 19 pizza restaurants in Easley! That seems like a lot to me.
I can see having two or three places you like to get pizza from, but are people really always looking for a new place to
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When we are weak, He is strong
How much grace does it take to love our enemies and those who have hurt us? Well, that’s a good question.
Tragedies occur all around us, and it’s true we are heartbroken and disturbed, but what happens if we are personally offended or our family and friends are harmed? I admit that I do not always have the character of Christ when I’m being threatened or attacked. Many times, my first reaction is to retaliate because it’s a part of our old nature, but I agree that people need to be
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Local food bank needs your help
If you’re on the other side of the fence — able to donate to the food bank rather than visiting to use its services — your local pantry can surely use your help. 
Running them is more complicated and expensive than it might seem!
The food bank in my town gets most of its food from the main supplier in the state, which gets its support
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Homeless vet falls through the cracks
The Department of Veterans Affairs creates numerous programs to deal with homeless veteran populations — and this is all well and good. But it’s the individual homeless vet who can fall through the cracks.
The VA Office of Inspector General reports about a veteran (I’ll assume here it was a guy) who had multiple physical conditions on top of severe cognitive impairment. Years ago, he was given housing
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Courier Letters to the Editor 6-15-22
What is a father?
Dear Editor,
Hard to believe Father’s Day is here. Seems only yesterday it was Christmas. What is a father? You have your own opinions no doubt and so do I.
To me a father is someone that works hard to provide for his family. Sacrifices to see that they have a decent life. Doesn’t loafer when having time off. Instead
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Good things come to those who wait
This one falls under the heading of, “You Just Never Know.”
There is a news peg at the end, so please bear with me as I take a quick stroll down Memory Lane to give you the background.
Rewind the tape to 1974.
One night, not long after my brother Paul and I had moved to Macon, Ga., to become starving musicians, a knock came on our apartment door.
We weren’t expecting company.
It was a high school kid. Well, he was two or three years younger than us, so he seemed like a kid. I think he was a
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It was hot enough for us
I suppose, unless you live here, coming to the South from other parts in July can be a shock to the system.
It’s just something we don’t think about. It’s our normal.
But I’ll take it over cold weather. It was July 1996 in Atlanta, Ga. The Olympics were in full swing, and my cousins had tickets to the equestrian events. They invited me to go. So very early in the morning, we went to the Amtrak station in Clemson, and I took the train to Atlanta. My cousin Bill met me at the station and we drove through town to their house. Downtown Atlanta was deserted. I’d never seen it like that before. We were in one of the only
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Letters to the Editor
Looking for changes
Dear Editor,
I live near the crossroads of Chastain and White Oak roads in Central. Chastain Road is a shortcut between U.S. Highway 123 and S.C. Highway 93. Clemson workers must find this road extremely convenient, since traffic becomes heavier every year. Chastain is very curvy, with two schools at the 123 end and a SWU church with child care at the 93 end. The speed limit in front of my house is posted as 35 mph. Nowhere on Chastain is the speed limit above 45 mph. Motorcyclists love this road because of the curves, I guess.
I’ve tried multiple times to get the Pickens County Sheriff’s Office to try and slow traffic. They said they’d increase patrols, but I’ve not seen any evidence of
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Christ is the vine, we are the branches
I was having a discussion with a friend the other day about how it seems that so many people are living in fear and discouragement when he mentioned something that really made me think. He said that it was impossible to be depressed and walk in the joy of God’s presence at the same time.
After our conversation, I continued to ponder this thought, and by the way, I do agree with it. I’m not saying that developing an optimistic lifestyle is easy, but being a positive or a negative thinker are both learned behaviors. Since a healthy relationship with the Lord is associated with the level of our spiritual joy, we can know that a
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