by design | Apr 28, 2025 | Columnist, Pratt
A Crisis of Trust By Justin Pratt, Clear Springs Baptist Church Senior Pastor It all began with an unexpected package from Amazon—there was no note, just my name and the package from a kind, mystery sender. Inside the plain white bubble-wrapped package was a book...
by design | Apr 28, 2025 | Columnist, Rector
Depression By Joe Rector In the U.S., approximately 21 million individuals have experienced depression at least once. To no one’s surprise, young adults are the most susceptible to depression. That means that a large chunk of our population has lived through at least...
by design | Apr 27, 2025 | Columnist, Hunley, Stories In This Week's Focus:
Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Leftists Support Criminals Instead Of Victims The Leftists pick some mighty strange characters as their heroes today. Literally picturing Luigi Mangione as a saint, fawning over him, and some empty-headed little...
by design | Apr 27, 2025 | Columnist, Hill, Ray Hill's Archives, Stories In This Week's Focus:
The Gentleman From Washington State Russell V. Mack By Ray Hill By trade, Russell Vernon Mack was a newspaperman, owning and publishing the Hoquiam Daily Washingtonian before getting elected to Congress. Educated at Stanford University and the University of...
by design | Apr 21, 2025 | Columnist, Duncan
Israel – Killing Ambulance Workers, Starving Little Children By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com On Palm Sunday (April 13), Israeli bombs destroyed the surgery and intensive care sections of the “last fully functional hospital in Gaza City,” according...
by design | Apr 21, 2025 | Black, Columnist
What Would Adam Smith Do? By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com I read Adam Smith’s “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations” in my junior year at Georgia – yes, we actually had to read books when I was in...