COMMENTARY: A better way to be

by | Aug 12, 2020 | OPINIONS

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   Every day is a day of selling. And everyone sells. Some people spend their days selling the idea that they do not like or participate in selling. Every employment activity, and most personal activity involves...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Worship God, for he is your victory 

by | Aug 7, 2020 | OPINIONS

  By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR  CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH    “When Elisha was in his last illness, King Jehoash of Israel visited him and wept over him.  ‘My father!  My father! I see the chariots and charioteers of Israel!’ he cried. “Elisha...

COMMENTARY: We didn’t “sign” up for this

by | Aug 5, 2020 | OPINIONS

  By ROBERT JUMPER  ONE FEATHER EDITOR    One of the appealing things about Cherokee is the natural beauty of the homeland. Indeed, all western North Carolina was homeland for the Cherokee people at one time. The concept of land ownership was foreign to most...

COMMENTARY: COVID Tourism

by | Aug 3, 2020 | OPINIONS

  By ROBERT JUMPER ONE FEATHER EDITOR   Since the early 1950s, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) has depended on tourism in some form or fashion to be a sustaining economic community driver. The Tribe, for decades, was sustained by a combination of...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: God is watching us!

by | Jul 31, 2020 | OPINIONS

  REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH   “‘Obedience is better than sacrifice, saith the Lord,’ stated Pastor Melton.  In today’s Christian-‘ese’ the ‘Fear of the Lord,’ has long been neglected in being lived out and is scarcely...