by Michael Cheuk | Jun 7, 2018 | Opinion
The first anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, is approaching. I want to reflect on that event and highlight what the faith communities in the Charlottesville area have been doing since then to address racism in our community. The...
by Wale Hudson-Roberts | Jun 7, 2018 | Opinion
Are the differences between Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as big as some make out? Personally, I don’t think so. About three years before his death, King underwent a conversion. Agreed, it did not parallel Malcolm’s Mecca conversion, but it was...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 6, 2018 | Opinion
I was sitting in a second-floor conference room overlooking a nicely landscaped office park when I saw the saddest looking man I’d come across in awhile. In a pool of shade beneath a small tree, a youngish man was sitting cross-legged, his head in his hands, his...
by Charles Watson Jr. | Jun 6, 2018 | Opinion
“Son, if you hear someone talking about the president, I want you to keep walking,” my grandmother instructed me. “Why, grandma?” I asked. “I don’t want anything to happen to you,” she explained. I’ve always found...
by Chris Smith | Jun 6, 2018 | Opinion
The world witnessed a beautiful example of a truly integrated and diverse worship experience through the wedding of Prince Harry and now Princess Meghan Markle. Each element of the service was beautifully and uniquely balanced between the two cultures of Harry and...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 5, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Authoritarianism rules. And, boy (gender intended), do we live in a time of emboldened authoritarianism from the White House to the church house. Calvinist Baptist John Piper, who pushes male-dominance “complementarian” doctrine, can always be...
