Author: Rodney Noel Saunders

I did not know Val Carr. After reading Robert Zuluaga’s guest column (in the March 3 Courier), I still do not. It reminded me of what pastors have often said about some funerals — “the preacher tried to preach the deceased into heaven,” rather than sharing the interesting stories of the person’s life told by…

While I fear reprisal, and even possibly death threats, because of writing this, someone must speak out. So I will. It is stunningly sad that a sheriff sworn to serve and protect the citizens of the county where he serves would speak only of concern for officers in that jurisdiction, and not even come close…

Our nation is divided! We hear that virtually every day somewhere. Some say it is hopelessly divided. Some say it is more divided than at any time since the Civil War. Some say it is so divided it could easily lead to a civil war. Some say it is equally divided — though the actual,…

The following is in response to Philip Mella’s three-part series titled, in part, “On science and spirituality,” which published in the Nov. 28, Dec. 5 and 12 issues of the Courier. Why so many people within Christianity seem to think the primary threat to their faith is science, most specifically evolutionary science, seems completely unnecessary.…

What, indeed, is the proper role of government? Columnist Philip Mella, in an Oct. 10 Courier column titled “The proper role of a government,” claims that according to the U.S. Constitution, it is meant to be limited (whatever that means not stated); is supposed to be balanced between the executive, legislative and judicial branches so…