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Goodbye after 36 years
Alcorn retiring as Herald columnist after 1,100 articles Jimmy Carter had recently become president, and the Austin Daily ...
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Alcorn: Sexual attitude of Victorians is misunderstood
Listening to “moderns,” as of course I do, one would think the term “mid-Victorian” identifies the most impractical, ...
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Alcorn: Enjoy the teenagers at businesses
I miss the teenage kids. I miss them from retail businesses each fall when they return to school, ...
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Alcorn: Read what’s written, not others’ opinions
A great number of readers of the Internet are more influenced — and negatively — by uncivil “reader ...
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Carnations, pansies on Mothers Day
I learned the meaning of Mothers Day the way my father taught most of what I learned from ...
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Being religious to become spiritual
Some friends think of and present themselves as religious, while others consider themselves to be anything but religious ...
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Sin forgiven, not indulged
The “favorite Bible verse” of those who do not believe the Bible, I have come to recognize, is ...
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Conservatives conserve their values
They asked me to talk to them about “conservative values.” Theirs was a study group in a church ...
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Clergy not ranked high
Clergy rank not especially well on a recent Gallup survey on the honesty and ethics of several categories ...
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Parents surviving teen years
Many parents complain teenagers just don’t listen. This is true — they don’t. But they do watch. The ...
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The solution in Palestine is …
To the “Palestinian-Israeli conflict” I find no simple answer or easy solution. Indeed, I wonder if there will ...
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Praying for the Pope
When the white smoke appeared, thousands of eager faithful below cheered. They turned to prayer for the new ...
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Lincoln used the Bible
Abraham Lincoln was never a church member or expressed whatever theology he might have entertained in any systematic ...
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Before hot issues cool …
Some people, no doubt, feel reading my opinions and thoughts here each Monday is quite enough. Others seem ...
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Opinion: Decision to allow gays in scouts up to BSA
The Boy Scouts must be allowed to decide for itself whether to disallow gays or include them. Gay ...