by Alyssa Aldape | May 27, 2022 | Opinion
What has not been said about mass shootings and the toll they take on children? What fresh, new perspective will convince lawmakers on both sides of the hell that exist here in America? I am tired of leaving a courteous voicemail to my representatives telling them...
by Alyssa Aldape | May 6, 2022 | Opinion
I did one of the dumbest things of my seminary career during the summer of 2013. I took a summer course on not one but two biblical languages. As if ancient Hebrew and Greek weren’t difficult on their own, I said “hold my beer” to my sanity and now have the C on my...
by Alyssa Aldape | Apr 22, 2022 | Opinion
If the story of Easter teaches Easter people anything, it is that what happens in darkness will come to light. We learn songs as children about little lights that cannot be stomped out, blown out or put out by Satan – songs about God being bigger than darkness and the...
by Alyssa Aldape | Mar 18, 2022 | Opinion
I knew the story of St. Patrick was important when VeggieTales used a human to depict St. Patrick instead of their signature actor- a vegetable in their retelling of his life and ministry. He is the patron saint of a nation and a man whose life is rich with adventure...
by Alyssa Aldape | Feb 28, 2022 | Opinion
Do you remember the youth room of your childhood church? Mine was on the second floor and back corner of Manor Baptist Church. But before the sixth grade, my family left the church I grew up in and moved to a predominantly white church in the suburbs of San Antonio....
