by Alan Rudnick | Oct 30, 2019 | Opinion
Expressions of grief, support and lament over two very public deaths filled my Facebook feed recently. Both people were active in bringing a focus on mental health issues in communities. One was a professor of counseling, and the other was a well-known West Coast...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 29, 2019 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Entering a new academic pursuit during my campus ministry years in the late-‘80s, I would make regular treks across metro Atlanta. My routine was to leave in the early morning hours to avoid traffic, and settle into a never-closed Denny’s for...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 29, 2019 | Opinion
One of the Desert Fathers, Saint Anthony, who lived in the third and fourth centuries, said, “A time is coming when people will go mad and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack that one and say, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’” Fast forward 17...
by Laura Landgraf | Oct 29, 2019 | Opinion
Forgive, but please don’t forget. Forgive and forget are not synonymous, although my background would suggest they are. All my life it was “forgive and forget,” which, when you think about it, makes perfect sense – if you’re my parents. Forgetting was the same as...
by Colin Harris | Oct 28, 2019 | Opinion
There is no joy in an impeachment process. Oh, there are the occasional “gotcha” moments, when evidence verifies suspicions of someone else’s wrongdoing, but the fact of the process itself is a sad acknowledgement of something gone seriously wrong in the body politic....
by Sue Smith | Oct 28, 2019 | Opinion
Daniel* was dressed as a clown, complete with a colorful, baggy suit, big orange hair and an exaggerated, painted red smile. It was his first Halloween. He was excited to share his loot with me, digging through his bag to find a Reese’s Peanut Butter cup, my favorite....
