by Amanda Hiley | Oct 21, 2020 | Opinion
Wendell Berry has been acclaimed as America’s living prophet for many decades now. For some 30 years, his words have served as a plumb line and carved the shape of my highest intentions and my best hopes. I both quickly and liberally confess how far off the mark I am....
by Amanda Hiley | Oct 8, 2020 | Faith Freedom 2020, Opinion
I was born into a spectacular moment in the ascent of science. Now half a century later, I fear I am living in an America bent on rejecting science. I am struggling to understand that. I was born in January 1969, just months before the landing on the moon, in a cotton...
by Amanda Hiley | Jul 31, 2020 | Opinion
John Lewis crossed the river Jordan on July 17, 2020, and last Sunday, I went to Selma to see him cross the Alabama River one last time. I went because his last crossing simply had to be so very different from the first, with all the power we have within us to make...
by Amanda Hiley | Jul 14, 2020 | Opinion
A friend’s Facebook post lamenting we no longer teach “American history” grabbed my attention. It was July 5 and it served as an anti-intellectual gut punch. I’ve done too much study in history and too much work on social change in the South to miss that the...
by Amanda Hiley | Jul 13, 2020 | Opinion
“For the first time in American history, we’re not allowed to teach American history.” It was the first thing in my Facebook feed when I awoke on July 5, posted by a good friend from college. As a person who did undergraduate and graduate work in history, the...
