by Michael Cheuk | Feb 26, 2019 | Opinion
Black History Month has taken up new meaning for me this year. In the past, I intellectually understood why we need to set aside time to remember, acknowledge and celebrate the achievements of black people and culture in the United States. However, for most of my...
by Chris Sanders | Feb 21, 2019 | Opinion
Mention “labor” in America, and nostalgic images come to mind of 20th-century white men in hard hats, hands and faces grimy with hard labor. For whatever reason, people with work called a career don’t see the labor now before us. But there they are, providing supply...
by James L. Evans | Feb 19, 2019 | Opinion
Did your parents ever say to you, “Sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never harm you?” Mine did and, well, it turns out they were wrong. Words hurt and may do great harm in a person’s life. Depending on who is doing the name-calling, the use of...
by Jim Kelsey | Jan 24, 2019 | Opinion
We were naming a room in our church building. We already had a room named after the long-term pastor of the church, who led the congregation during what was seen by the long-tenured members as the heyday of the church. Our choosing of a name had come to the point...
by David Swartz | Jan 23, 2019 | Opinion
When Joseph E. Brown, a railroad and coal tycoon and former governor of Georgia, died in 1894, the faculty of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary offered this tribute: “Governor Brown was a friend and helper of our Seminary. … He has been for years, and was at...
