December 16, 2016 We are in what Jews and Christians alike call The Season of Light, and this year, wonderfully, they nearly coincide....
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Publisher's Point Archives
Publisher’s Point: Passion’s Role In Leadership
For the second time in a year, I have been mesmerized by a poster on a wall in the First...
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Publisher’s Point: “Make Each Day Your Masterpiece”
I can’t take credit for the saying which is the title of this Point. They were the words of Joshua...
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Publisher’s Point: Salt And Light
This week, in a way that I don’t remember in my 63 years, things are melting down around us on...
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Publisher’s Point: Casting A Ballot With A Pinched Nostril
This particular Publisher’s Point really is not intended for the people of North Alabama or Southern Tennessee, but for the...
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Publisher’s Point: Three Cheers For Coaching
Lest you think I am referring to Bear, Gene, Nick, or Gus, what I am referring to is a profession...
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Publisher’s Point: Getting Bitten By The 5K Bug
When I was a kid, running, even barefoot, was about as natural as breathing. Then I got hit hard with...
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Publisher’s Point: 9/11 Fifteen Years Later
In a few days, it will have been 15 years since the day that 19 jihadists changed life in America...
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Publisher’s Point: How Long Will Hillary Be Held Up?
What I mean by the question is not, how long ‘til every obstacle in the way of a Clinton presidency...
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The Saga of “Good Sam The Neighbor”
Anthony Lindner moved here from Tennessee about six years ago to be nearer to his family. He had retired from...
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Publisher’s Point: An Open Letter To Chief David Brown
Dear Chief Brown, I have literally cheered this week as I have watched you handle an impossibly tragic situation, one...
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Publisher’s Point: Glad Days And Sad Days
On June 22nd, 2016, around 125 people gathered in the upper floor of the Center for Lifelong Learning to celebrate...
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Publisher’s Point: Taking The Pulse Of The Pulse
As is fitting, the massacre that occurred at the Pulse in Orlando on June 12th is dominating the media, our...
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Publisher’s Point: Why Have A Why?
Do you have a “why?” Do you know why you should have a “why?” What in the world is a...
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Publisher’s Point: Another Chance To Bless Our First Responders
In 2015, in response to his own and others’ outrage over the execution of two New York cops while they...
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Publisher’s Point: A Little Child Shall Lead Them
On Wednesday, in the middle of talking on the phone with one of my columnists and tweaking her piece for...
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Publisher’s Point: Curiouser And Curiouser, Part 2
I have a feeling, in this inarguably bizarre Presidential election season, that the idea of “Curiouser and Curiouser” may end...
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Publisher’s Point: Miracles From Heaven, A “Beam” Of Hope
A week ago, my family and I took a 10-year-old girl who is like family to us to see Miracles...
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Publisher’s Point: Just Missin’ Jimmy
Athens City Councilman Jimmy Gill has gone home for good, having fought a long and brave battle with cancer. He...
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Publisher’s Point: The True Hope Of Spring
I have been reflecting back on the fact that it has been five years to the day that I began...
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