by Alex Lockridge | Mar 12, 2019 | Opinion
A Baptist and a Catholic sit down for coffee. The Catholic says, “We need to save our planet.” The Baptist says, “We will serve the potluck.” OK, so that’s not exactly what happened, but it’s close. Recently, an ecumenical gathering in the name of creation care was...
by Elizabeth Evans Hagan | Mar 12, 2019 | Opinion
What are you giving up for Lent this year? How many times have you been asked that question already? I really don’t like it when folks ask me that. I’m sure it’s because they assume that I have something really holy to offer. Yet I don’t. I’ve never really fasted more...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Mar 11, 2019 | Opinion
Standardized tests assess whether students have achieved grade-level knowledge and skills, thus determining how well teachers are educating children at grade-level. Or do they? The effectiveness of standardized testing has long been debated, with a recent article in...
by Christopher Schilling | Mar 11, 2019 | Opinion
A team of nurses and doctors surround an elderly man. Standing next to his daughter, a woman in her mid-50s, I try to be what we as hospital chaplains are called to be: a non-anxious presence. With the sounds of alarms and the visualization of a nurse giving chest...
by Laura Landgraf | Mar 8, 2019 | Opinion
Brandy was petite, with fiery red hair, a generous laugh, a quick tongue, an agile mind. A spitfire. She fairly sizzled with energy, this woman I first met over the phone when I called the game on my child-molesting dad. I had waited until my children were in school...
by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed | Mar 8, 2019 | Opinion
Theological education is one pathway for women’s empowerment in the last 108 years of observing International Women’s Day. I began an assessment of these trends yesterday, which draw primarily from the State of Clergywomen in the U.S., a report I compiled in 2018. The...
