COMMENTARY: To own or not to own…

by | Jan 23, 2021 | OPINIONS

  By WILLIAM LEDFORD    Observations and random thoughts.    It’s been a turbulent couple of weeks in our country. We have a new President of the United States who has been officially inaugurated and sworn in. We have a Senate that’s divided 50-50 but...

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...