by Guy Sayles | Oct 21, 2011 | Opinion
It has been odd but good: over the last month or so, when I have been jogging through town, people have spontaneously decided to join me. I’m still not sure why. Maybe it’s because I was moving so slowly and they liked the idea of winning an easy race. Or...
by Randy Hyde | Oct 21, 2011 | Opinion
Jon Meacham, the esteemed Newsweek religion columnist, is right when he says that calling into question Mitt Romney’s faith is “bad for all of us.” Now, before anyone immediately starts to object that I need to keep my opinions strictly in the realm...
by Trevor Barton | Oct 21, 2011 | Opinion
Santos is a fifth-grader at my school. When he was in second grade, he was in my classroom for the first half of the school year. His parents are migrant workers, so when the spring, summer and fall work on South Carolina farms slows and stops with the winter winds,...
by Colin Harris | Oct 20, 2011 | Opinion
Editor’s note: Below is part two of a two-part column on immigration and theology. Read part one here. Theology is by definition the result of an interaction between a faith experience and the intellectual and cultural setting in which it finds itself. In...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Oct 20, 2011 | Opinion
Some readers have written to say that Camila Vallejo is a member of the Communist Party of Chile, as if this should make my admiration for her evaporate. If we are to shun any involvement with communists, then we should also be boycotting all goods made in China and...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 19, 2011 | Opinion
Photo taken somewhere in Oxford in 2005. Could find no photos of wizards or vampires in my collection. By John Pierce Fantasy is a genre of books and movies that has never registered with me. Now before some of you cook up a killer potion or cut off my head with a...