by Ed Hogan | Jun 9, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
I am a schoolteacher, so the summer is my time to catch up on the news and binge-watch documentaries. Last week, I did both, reading a news article and watching a docuseries that dovetailed in unexpected ways. Rick Warren wrote an open letter to the Southern Baptist...
by Ed Hogan | Mar 31, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
I grew up in East Texas where most people were Baptists and Methodists, so the most religious diversity I experienced was playing football with my Catholic neighbors. This all changed when I went to college at The University of Texas at Austin. I met famed atheist...
by Ed Hogan | Aug 5, 2022 | Opinion
August is often a slow time for sports news in the U.S. The National Football League is just beginning training camp. Major League Baseball has its trade deadline, but there are still a couple of months until the playoffs. A new season for the National Basketball...
by Ed Hogan | Mar 14, 2022 | Opinion
Have you read the list of the seven deadly sins lately? In case you’ve forgotten, they are the sins of pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth. We live in a society that doesn’t talk much about sin, but one deadly sin — greed – has begun to affect me and...
by Ed Hogan | Feb 3, 2022 | Opinion
It is hard to unravel all the implications of COVID-19, divisive politics and racial divisions in the U.S., and the impact on public schools will be something educators will be navigating for years to come. Teachers like me have been too busy on the front lines of...
