Columns
America’s vaccine distribution system is unjust
Recently, on a cold, wet morning in early February, my wife and I tried to reserve a day and time to receive the COVID vaccine ...
Polk Culpepper, Author at Washington Daily News
Columns
Maybe it’s me rather than the tradition
I’m done with New Year’s resolutions. After six decades of making and breaking commitments to myself, I’m finally ready to admit that goals quickly chosen ...
by Polk Culpepper, Friday, January 8, 2021 6:03 pm
Columns
The war on Christmas, then and now
In 2004, former conservative TV commentator Bill O’Reilly announced that his archenemy, the political left, was waging a war against Christmas by encouraging shoppers to ...
by Polk Culpepper, Monday, December 14, 2020 2:11 pm
Columns
Thanksgiving and Christian unity
Many of those who boarded the Mayflower in 1620 en route to the East Coast of North America were dissenters from the Church of England. ...
by Polk Culpepper, Wednesday, November 25, 2020 12:44 pm
Columns
A necessity to preserve a nation
We are living in perilous times. Families, churches and neighborhoods are under assault. And not just by a deadly pandemic. America is divided by political ...
by Polk Culpepper, Friday, October 23, 2020 7:11 pm
Columns
Enjoying the fruits of our labor on Labor Day
Most historians peg the beginning of modern global capitalism to 17th-century England. Cotton manufacturers in England’s great mills needed capital (in the form of money) ...
by Polk Culpepper, Sunday, September 6, 2020 7:30 am
Community Columns
To mask or not to mask? — that is the question
At my age (72), the memory begins to wane a bit. For example, I sometimes forget to put a face mask on before entering a ...
by Polk Culpepper, Sunday, July 19, 2020 9:00 am
Community Columns
Racism: Its foundations may not be what you think they are
I recently received an email from the son of a Greenville friend who lives in Florida. The son was moved by the murder of George ...
by Polk Culpepper, Saturday, June 27, 2020 8:30 am
Beaufort County
Four chaplains and patriotism
Every Memorial Day we honor those who fought in foreign wars by remembering the sacrifices they made for the nation. One of the most memorable ...
by Polk Culpepper, Monday, May 25, 2020 7:57 am
Community Columns
Mystery in the time of coronavirus
Pandemics like the coronavirus are unimpressed with individual spiritual resumes or national claims to superior religiosity. Pandemics are viruses without consciences, unflinchingly cruel to all, ...
by Polk Culpepper, Friday, April 3, 2020 7:43 pm
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