Ashville Road Church of Christ

Alabama is beautiful this time of the year.  Autumn is winding down, and we might have one or two more weeks of beautiful fall foliage—those reds, yellows, and browns.  The earth has shifted on its axis like a person turning in his sleep to avoid the daylight creeping through his window, and we breathe a [...]

Three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate have concluded, and the pundits are in unanimous agreement over the results. For the most part, if you were in support of Obama before the debates, you are supporting Obama now.  And if you were a McCain supporter prior to the debates, you are probably still supporting McCain.

Earlier this summer a man from Knoxville, Tennessee, filed a claim with his church’s insurance company, saying he was so consumed by the Holy Spirit during a worship service that he fell and hit his head.  The insurance company denied his claim, so now he is suing the church for $2.5 million to cover his [...]

Being alone is not an easy thing. Despite the fact that the world population has climbed in excess of 6 billion, people complain that they feel lonely. They will search anywhere for friends: in bars, at work, at the grocery store, at the day care. Human beings are created with a need to connect. Without [...]

My favorite blogger, Ike Pigott, is back online with Occam’s RazR, a personal journal dedicated to making complicated things simpler. The title is borrowed from William of Occam, a medieval English friar who advanced the principle that, when given two equally valid explanations for a phenomenon, one should embrace the less complicated formulation.

Alexis de Tocqueville was a French nobleman who visited America in the 1830s. Because he was an outsider looking in, Tocqueville was able to perceive how America could be so generous with freedom: Christianity restrained the American people from abusing their freedoms and disciplined them to use them wisely. “Despotism,” he said, “may be able [...]