SPEAKING OF FAITH: The choice is of and by the people

by | Jan 15, 2021 | OPINIONS

  REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR  CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH    Read Isaiah 45:1-25  (God’s Declaration of His Anointing of Cyrus, Concerning Israel) “Why do the heathen rage?” (is asked of the world in Psalm 2).   Could it be, we might lose our...

COMMENTARY: In no uncertain terms

by | Jan 11, 2021 | OPINIONS

  By ROBERT JUMPER  ONE FEATHER EDITOR    Sometimes out of sight is truly out of mind. This certainly seems to be the case with the push to establish or re-establish an Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians governing constitution.  Just a few years ago, a...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Anger with boundaries of forgiveness

by | Jan 8, 2021 | OPINIONS

By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR  CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH    Read Proverbs 25:28 We must each learn how to best deal with the volatile emotion of anger which can arise in just our daily living together on this Earth.  Frictions do occur for each person...

COMMENTARY: Is it public or is it not?

by | Jan 4, 2021 | OPINIONS

  By ROBERT JUMPER  ONE FEATHER EDITOR    The times they are a changing. There was a recent discussion by Tribal Council that took place regarding the efforts to approve tribal dollars of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians for use in the purchase of a...

COMMENTARY: Tantrum or fighting back…

by | Jan 2, 2021 | OPINIONS

  Observations and random thoughts.    By WILLIAM LEDFORD    How would you folks at home feel if we had a tribal election and the obvious loser of that election went off on Twitter, and everywhere else, claiming that he won and whining that the election...

COMMENTARY: Why I’ll be taking the COVID-19 vaccine

by | Dec 14, 2020 | OPINIONS

  By JONAH LOSSIAH ONE FEATHER STAFF    I understand the trepidation. I really do.  If you asked me a few weeks ago whether I’d take the vaccine, I would probably say ‘yes, but not right now’. Well, we sit maybe just a few weeks away from our first public...