Many readers may have thought that Stan is right---I am a "LIBERAL." I am critical about the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention. They assume I have been against anything conservative from the beginning.
Published: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015 @ 1:42 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have just seen over the last week a "most interesting possibility" --- the President ultimately becoming a Supreme Court Justice.
Published: Thursday, May 28th, 2015 @ 8:40 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I gave you a description of the Conservative Takeover of the largest and most democratic religious group in America--- the Southern Baptist Convention.
Published: Wednesday, May 27th, 2015 @ 11:28 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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The economy was not what it used to be. I had done well with insurance. I represented Ministers Life Insurance Company and traveled the eastern end of NC.
Published: Wednesday, May 6th, 2015 @ 5:07 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Stacey A. Dickerson, 60, of Jamesville, died on Friday, May 1, 2015. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, May 5, 2015, at 2 p.m. at Cedar Branch B
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 10:27 pm
By: Announcements
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A memorial service for Mr. Gilbert Leland Radcliffe will be held at 2 p.m. today at Belhaven Missionary Baptist Church. A celebration of Mr. Radcliffe's life will follow in the church fellowship hall. Online condolences may be sent to the family by visiting...
Published: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 9:19 pm
By: Announcements
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The "Tax-exempt, Non-profit" status of any church deserves a re-examination by all tax agencies. I fail to see how we can benefit organizations which foment hate and a clear political position.
Published: Tuesday, April 21st, 2015 @ 11:04 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I remember, along with older folks, the days of youth when time dragged by. You looked at your grandparents as so old and wise. You wanted to do the things they did and, with my Granddaddy Williams, drive the pickup and tractor. His farm in Pickens County, SC, was the land of my dreams and wonder
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 10:24 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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Six months ago, three of North Carolina's leading health systems announced plans to create a new company, owned by all three organizations, with the goal of working together to improve quality and affordability for patients across the state. Today, Vidant Health, Wake Forest Baptist Medical...
Published: Tuesday, March 24th, 2015 @ 9:10 pm
By: Chris Downey
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This outfit is the composite of conservatism in the USA.
Published: Sunday, March 8th, 2015 @ 7:26 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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It's easy to understand why a group of environmental activists would support new government rules promoting the use of "renewable," "green," or "clean" energy sources. Misguided as the rules might be, they would appear to align government policy more closely to the environmentalists' goals.
Published: Wednesday, February 25th, 2015 @ 3:59 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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We have a most important matter before our governing officials.
Published: Friday, January 23rd, 2015 @ 8:47 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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For many years those of us who know about church outlooks and activities have seen nothing new out of a Pope.
Published: Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 @ 12:02 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Three leading health systems in North Carolina will be working together to improve quality and affordability for patients across the state.
Published: Wednesday, September 17th, 2014 @ 9:57 pm
By: Stan Deatherage
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I am now age 68. Since I was age 30, I have suffered from a chronic prostate. It is a direct result of stress and dealing with a small town Baptist church in the beginning!
Published: Wednesday, August 27th, 2014 @ 8:11 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have finally had my chance to review the same-sex attraction of the female Presbyterian minister.
Published: Sunday, June 22nd, 2014 @ 4:19 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I was blessed with a wise and intelligent father who saw behind all things SBC and Southern. He went to Mercer under threat from the little ladies of Moon's Grove Baptist Church outside Athens that "they will ruin your faith!"
Published: Friday, May 23rd, 2014 @ 3:22 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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We are back home after a great High School Reunion celebrating 50 years. I actually graduated with the class of '63 by taking summer school English and taking enough units to get out just before Kennedy was killed.
Published: Tuesday, May 20th, 2014 @ 2:47 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I have lived here for the last 5 years. We met as I did work at your house after Irene. Instantly I was struck with how a man leaning Democrat and a man leaning Republican could be so similar in basic philosophy and outlook.
Published: Friday, May 16th, 2014 @ 12:25 pm
By: Gene Scarborough
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I just read this most interesting account of the growth of women as pastors in Baptist churches.
Published: Saturday, April 19th, 2014 @ 11:11 am
By: Gene Scarborough
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Last month, in a sermon the media described as "fire and thunder," the Rev. William Barber, head of the NC NAACP, mounted the pulpit of Zion Baptist Church in Columbia, South Carolina, and began to excoriate all things political - to the right.
Published: Thursday, February 6th, 2014 @ 9:39 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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East Carolina University art education professor Dr. Borim Song is helping aspiring teachers hone those skills through a service-learning experience that connects ECU art education students with children at the Greenville Korean Language School.
Published: Wednesday, November 13th, 2013 @ 7:51 am
By: ECU News Services
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The historian Polybius famously observed that empires deteriorate either internally or from without.
Published: Sunday, August 11th, 2013 @ 8:34 am
By: John William Pope Center
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A LOT of my Tea Party friends from the Charlotte area are just cooing over the potential US Senate candidacy of Baptist pastor Mark Harris.
Published: Wednesday, July 10th, 2013 @ 11:32 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Mr. Dara “Darrell” Alexander McNair, 55, of 3092 N.C. Highway 45 South, Plymouth, died Thursday, June 27, 2013. A funeral will be conducted at 1 p.m. Saturday, July 6, 2013 At Liley of the Valley Missionary Baptist Church, Plymouth, with the Rev. Jasper Arnold officiating. Burial follows in...
Published: Saturday, July 6th, 2013 @ 12:06 pm
By: Announcements
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Aubrey Lee White 87, of 649 White Oak Road, Windsor, died Monday, July 1, 2013, at his home. A funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Wednesday, July 3, 2013, at Askewville Baptist Church with the Revs. Billy Presley and Frank Stansbury officiating. Burial follows in Edgewood Cemetery.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 @ 1:51 pm
By: Announcements
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Adelaide Houston DeRosa, 82, of New Bern, passed away on Sunday, June 30, 2013. Mrs. DeRosa was born on Oct. 21, 1930 in Pantego, NC, the daughter of Laird and Nora Houston. She was a graduate of New Bern High School, class of 1949, and of Craven Community College.
Published: Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013 @ 1:45 pm
By: Announcements
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Born in 1725 in the town of Bath, Samuel Ashe was the second son of John Baptiste Ashe and Elizabeth Swann.
Published: Monday, May 27th, 2013 @ 11:11 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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What can be done about the ideological tilt at colleges and universities? At times, it seems as though the Ivory Tower will be forever lost in a fog of political correctness and collectivist dogma.
Published: Monday, February 11th, 2013 @ 1:28 pm
By: Jane Shaw
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Irene Lopez Garcia, 77, a resident of 114 E. Fourth St., Washington, died Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011, at UHS-Beaufort Hospital.
Published: Monday, November 28th, 2011 @ 10:30 pm
By: Announcements
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Della Murray Stilley Little, 105, of the Stilley Town Community, Blount’s Creek, N.C., went to be with the Lord Nov. 16, 2011, at home of natural causes surrounded by family.
Published: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 @ 1:51 am
By: Announcements
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Mrs. Frances W. Porter, 69, of Carolina Shores, N.C., died Saturday, Nov. 19, 2011, at her residence surrounded by her loving family.
Published: Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011 @ 12:01 am
By: Announcements
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Milton Warren Griffin, age 98, a resident of Jamesville, died Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011, at Martin General Hospital. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Smithwick Creek Church.
Published: Friday, November 18th, 2011 @ 7:00 pm
By: Announcements
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Mr. Willie Archie Howard, a resident of 591 Noah Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y., and formerly of the Slocomb community, Engelhard, died Friday, Oct. 28, 2011. A funeral will be conducted at noon Saturday at Mt. Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church.
Published: Friday, November 4th, 2011 @ 5:41 pm
By: Announcements
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