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...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 29, 2019 | Opinion
One of the Desert Fathers, Saint Anthony, who lived in the third and fourth centuries, said, “A time is coming when people will go mad and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack that one and say, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’” Fast forward 17...
by Guy Sayles | Oct 16, 2019 | Opinion
A lot of us fear we are “not enough.” In some of us, that fear exists alongside anxiety that we are “too much.” Whether we feel that we lack something that would qualify us for acceptance or that we have an excess of something that threatens people who want to keep us...
