by Nell Green | Jun 10, 2019 | Opinion
We were in an atelier where they made mosaic tables and other articles. Young boys were fashioning bricks and putting them into wood-burning kilns stretching their arms deep into the fiery furnace. Their arms bore the scars of burns and other accidents. Other boys sat...
by Beth Allison Barr | Jun 10, 2019 | Opinion
A defeated and cash-strapped Rome passed a new law in 215 BCE. The context was their greatest military defeat ever. As the first century Roman historian Livy cried, “Certainly, there is no other nation that would not have succumbed beneath such a weight of calamity.”...
by Michael Cheuk | Jun 10, 2019 | Opinion
I was born in Hong Kong; my family moved to the United States in 1973 in anticipation of Hong Kong reverting back to the Republic of China in 1997. In my desire to assimilate, I neglected my own language and culture in order to be accepted in white society. I still...
by Barry Howard | Jun 7, 2019 | Opinion
Pentecost was on my mind as I drove across the Tennessee River and caught a glimpse of a marina populated with yachts, fishing boats, speedboats and a few sailboats. It was a picturesque scene of colorful sailboats gliding across the backwater as they were powered by...
by Michael Helms | Jun 7, 2019 | Opinion
Standing beneath a tent beside a freshly dug grave on a very hot May afternoon, I listened to the granddaughter of the deceased read the 23rd Psalm. After sharing how she would remember her grandfather, she comforted her family with words beyond her years that...
by Elizabeth Goatley | Jun 7, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on June 12, 2017. Goatley was an assistant professor of social work in the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University at the time of publication. It is republished today in advance of the U.N.’s World Day...
