by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 17, 2015 | Opinion
Genocide is a term now recognized worldwide, but the origin of the designation is not widely known. Raphael Lemkin began using the term in the 1940s to describe the Nazi efforts to exterminate the Jewish people. He “formed the word ‘genocide’ by...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 14, 2015 | Opinion
April has been set aside by several U.S. states as Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month. It was first designated by state resolutions in California (2010), Minnesota and Texas (2011), Georgia and New Hampshire (2014), and has become a national observance. New...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 9, 2015 | Opinion
Everyone’s favorite time of the year is upon us: tax season. We all join in the annual ritual of compiling seemingly endless documents – W2s, 1098s, 1099-INTs, charitable giving statements and so on – which we dread no matter our perspective on...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Apr 3, 2015 | Opinion
A Baptist congregation sent President Thomas Jefferson a cheese wheel to congratulate him on his election. More interesting is the fact that it was delivered by John Leland (1754-1841) on New Year’s Day 1802. Leland was a prominent Baptist minister and a leading...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Feb 27, 2015 | Opinion
“Wages of Sin” read the headline of a report that the Church of England does not pay all of its employees a living wage. Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby called it an embarrassing reality and noted that Canterbury “was moving very, very...
