Finding Christ in Christmas

Finding Christ in Christmas By Ralphine Major As the Christmas celebration closes in 2023, did you find Christ in Christmas this year?  Perhaps you found Him while unwrapping a pretty package from under the tree.  Perhaps you found Him during the Christmas program in...

Populisms

Populisms By Dr. Jim Ferguson This will be my last Focus column of 2023. And even though there is little difference week to week, we are all, nonetheless, time-focused creatures. In his trilogy on the origins of Western Civilization, Thomas Cahill imagined a moment...

On turning 77 years old

On turning 77 years old By Mike Steely Senior Writer steelym@knoxfocus.com When does one become an old person? For me it was today, December 26, when I realized I am now 77 years old. By anyone’s standards that’s old. I was born in 1946 and supposedly may be the...

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas By Dr. Harold A. Black blackh@knoxfocus.com haroldblackphd.com This Christmas, like all the ones before, I am grateful to have been blessed with great parents who had struggled to get an education and who made it easy for me and my brother to go to...

Democrats And Republicans Used To Get Along Better

Democrats And Republicans Used To Get Along Better By John J. Duncan Jr. duncanj@knoxfocus.com A worker at Holston Hills Country Club a few weeks ago told me I was the only Republican he ever voted for. Many Democrats over the years have said similar things like that...

Publisher’s Positions

Publisher’s Positions By Steve Hunley Do As I Say,  Not As I Do Joe Biden routinely has threatened to go after “tax cheats” and has called on the better-off to pay their fair share. Evidently, that doesn’t apply to First Son Hunter. Just about every member of the...