SPEAKING OF FAITH: Anger with boundaries of forgiveness

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 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…

  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 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...

SPEAKING OF FAITH: Fighting ‘Giants’ and winning

  By REV. TIMOTHY L. MELTON, PASTOR  CHEROKEE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH    Read 1 Samuel 17:1-58 for the whole story of the battle David fought with Goliath.  Memorize David’s fighting words, a 17-year-old, to his ‘giant’ in verses 45-48a (and it came to...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Thanks to election volunteers

  With the most contentious Presidential election in modern American history coming to a close, there is enough finger-pointing going on to satisfy even the most cynical.  Sadly, that means that a great deal of good work is going unnoticed.  Now is the time to...