by Colin Harris | Apr 3, 2018 | Opinion
Two contemporaries who represent significant landmarks in modern education passed away last week. This prompted some reflection on vision, determination and an effort to be on the right side of history. The first was Zell Miller – history teacher, lieutenant...
by Charles Foster Johnson | Apr 2, 2018 | Opinion
The moral foundation of public education is supported in Scripture in a number of important passages. In Genesis, God brings all the animals to the human to see what the human would call them. This labeling and naming enterprise is education, and in a very real sense,...
by Norman Jameson | Apr 2, 2018 | Opinion
Each Monday, I go to a local elementary school to be a reading buddy for a second-grader named Patrick. Patrick’s school is in the part of town I don’t drive through without locking my doors. It anchors blocks populated with old, wounded cars parked half...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 29, 2018 | Opinion
Jesus was not executed because he offered thoughts and prayers to the poor, sick, marginalized and oppressed. Jesus was executed because he turned the powerful and their systems upside down with his radical inclusion of the “other” and his courageous...
by Ian Green | Mar 29, 2018 | Opinion
The trial of Jesus before Pontius Pilate is a travesty of justice and surely a classic example of weak leadership crumbling before the popular vote. It’s ironic that the very “peace” Pilate is so keen to preserve is threatened by the very chaos he...
by Mitch Carnell | Mar 29, 2018 | Opinion
I helped launch the Say Something Nice Day movement 13 years ago. Never in my wildest imagination did I think that the greatest barriers to our success would become a president of the United States and evangelical Christians who support his coarse way of communicating...
