by Brenda McWilliams | Sep 27, 2022 | Opinion
Tears welled up during a recent morning walk when Josh Groban’s song “River” came on the playlist. I was not familiar with the song, yet the powerful lyrics and soothing melody delivered in Groban’s rich, self-described “tenor in training” voice transported me to a...
by Brenda McWilliams | Aug 23, 2022 | Opinion
My thoughts have been pinging on the phrase “your God.” More specifically, Matthew 22:37-39 has been on my mind: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. … Love your neighbor as yourself.” Jesus proclaimed these...
by Brenda McWilliams | Jul 18, 2022 | Opinion
Thomas Merton proposed in his 1965 book Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander that a widely accepted U.S. myth was that “America is the earthly paradise.” “When a myth becomes a daydream, it is judged, found wanting, and must be discarded. To cling to it when it has lost...
