by Joe LaGuardia | Feb 16, 2018 | Opinion
I tried to keep from weeping the last time I went through an airport security check. I had to take my shoes off at the metal detector because one terrorist, a few years back, tried to light a fire on an airplane. As I walked through the airport that day, it had been...
by Bojangles Blanchard | Feb 16, 2018 | Opinion
I went out to get the mail on the Wednesday following my ordination. It was the same day the local paper ran an article on my journey to becoming the first gay person ordained at Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. As I opened the mailbox, I found three...
by Greg Mamula | Feb 16, 2018 | Opinion
I will never forget the image of two mothers, one with ashes on her forward, weeping with one another. The photo was taken by Joel Auerbach of the Associated Press on Feb. 14, Ash Wednesday, after a mass shooting event at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in...
by Sara Powell | Feb 15, 2018 | Opinion
Several issues have become flashpoints in Christian communities. One of these is the inclusion of LGBT persons in local churches and denominations. On most of these issues, a figurative line is drawn in the sand and both individual and organizations are defined by...
by Mary Elizabeth Hanchey | Feb 15, 2018 | Opinion
I wonder who awoke this morning to find a smudge of ash still haunting the hairline. My children have been known to want to keep the ashen cross on their foreheads overnight, but I protest; it will get all over everything. Remembrances of our dusty humanity, our being...
by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | Feb 15, 2018 | Opinion
Do you have the courage to show up to hard conversations? It’s no secret that courage is in high demand in these times we’re living in. In our polarized-everything culture right now, it’s so easy to unfollow our social media “friends” who...
