by Guy Sayles | Dec 23, 2020 | Opinion
When we hold a baby, we cradle possibility and touch tomorrow. As Carl Sandburg said in his book, Remembrance Rock, “A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on.” Mary and Joseph brought their baby to the temple to do what Torah, the Law of Moses, required of...
by Guy Sayles | Nov 3, 2020 | Opinion
With a crowd of other children, I toddled through a school lunchroom, holding my mother’s hand as we moved closer to the front of a line at one of several tables covered with sugar cubes in very small paper cups. When it was my turn, a nurse handed me a sugar cube,...
by Guy Sayles | Aug 11, 2020 | Opinion
It’s bewildering to reckon with the interlocking crises we face. To name only some of them: soaring case rates of COVID-19 infections, overburdened hospitals, politicization of mask-wearing and school-opening, rising unemployment, nonprofits cutting staff or closing...
by Guy Sayles | May 1, 2020 | Opinion
I’ve written and deleted a half-dozen posts about the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve deleted them because you don’t need my opinions about medicine, and you don’t want my political commentary. What I mostly wrote was a series of rants – cathartic, but not for the record....
by Guy Sayles | Mar 6, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Feb. 29, 2012. At the time of publication, Sayles was pastor of First Baptist Church of Asheville, North Carolina. We’ve all heard, “Denial is not just a river in Egypt.” As worn out as that cliché surely is, it still...
