by Robert Parham | Apr 9, 2015 | Opinion
A man ran into our seventh-grade classroom before the weekly spelling test. He was an older man. He was glistening with sweat, wide-eyed, disheveled, frightened. He pled for protection. A classmate would later recall that he said to our teacher, “Please, ma, I...
by Dennis Bickers | Apr 8, 2015 | Opinion
Hillary Clinton’s use of private email accounts for official business while serving as the U.S. Secretary of State has dominated headlines in recent weeks. Her response to the controversy did not satisfy many Republicans and even some Democrats, so this is...
by Azar Ajaj | Apr 8, 2015 | Opinion
The famous theologian Karl Barth once said, “We should carry the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other hand.” This will help us, on the one hand, to understand what challenges our community is going through, and, on the other, to consider how...
by Jesse Wheeler | Apr 7, 2015 | Opinion
I consistently encounter the same myths about the modern Middle East and its peoples. Some myths are seemingly innocuous, others less so. And because the world is now so interconnected, such long-standing myths must no longer have a place within our global discourse....
by Greg DeLoach | Apr 7, 2015 | Opinion
The subject line of an email I received recently was “Muffin Top Drop.” I am not sure if it was a promotion for weight-loss or advertising a delicious pastry. I decided to forgo opening the email, assuming it was unsolicited. Besides, I like muffin tops...
by Terrell Carter | Apr 7, 2015 | Opinion
My role model for what a pastor and leader should be is Martin Luther King Jr. One of my proudest moments as a 17-year-old teenager was, after delivering my first sermon at my home church, an older deacon that I admired said that I reminded him of King in my delivery...
