by Robert Guffey | Nov 7, 2007 | Opinion
Last month I watched the events in Jena, La., unfold with particular interest. Jena is hometown to one of my aunts. I have friends from college and in Louisiana life who grew up in Jena and who have family living there now. I was born in Alexandria, about 30 miles...
by Bob Allen | Oct 30, 2007 | News
Protests sparked by the hanging of three nooses from a Louisiana schoolyard tree have sparked a series of copycat acts, further fueling a debate over America’s lingering legacy of racial injustice and violence. Last Thursday campus police at Indiana State...
by Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins | Oct 30, 2007 | Opinion
In the late 1970s, I was a not-yet-30-year-old pastor with four or five years of grassroots ordained experience under my belt. I was serving a congregation of fewer than 50 members in south-central Los Angeles, in a converted restaurant located in a community whose...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Sep 17, 2007 | Opinion
Ever wonder what happens when you fry baloney? I expect puzzled looks from my students every time I ask this question. Why would anyone in their right mind fry baloney? Still, usually a few students provide the correct answer: it bubbles up. Those who know the answer...
by Doug Weaver | Jul 20, 2007 | Opinion
I often have college students do an essay on race relations and the Christian heritage in light of reading Martin Luther King, Jr. Most students express an appreciation of King’s life and work but many add: “We are glad that the issue of race relations is...
