by Guy Sayles | Sep 17, 2021 | Opinion
I attended meetings of the John Birch Society when I was in elementary school. I can’t remember how it happened that I was, on several evenings, in a room full of adults who watched 8mm movies and filmstrips, listened to recordings and reported on books and articles...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 29, 2021 | Opinion
The regathering of our churches for worship and other ministries has been a source of relief, a reason for gratitude and a cause for celebration. During a long season of necessary isolation from one another, we’ve realized how crucial our physical presence with one...
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...
