by Jim Hopkins | Dec 12, 2022 | Opinion
The massive road-building project that is the interstate highway system divided communities across the nation. In The 1619 Project, Kevin M. Kruse notes that the highways “steered along routes that ran right through the neighborhoods of racial minorities.” He tells us...
by Jim Hopkins | Aug 15, 2022 | Opinion
I love baseball because it fills me with many happy childhood memories. I love it because the goal of the game is to return home and because the game proceeds at its own pace – it isn’t completely bound to a time clock. I love it because, as a game in which failure...
by Jim Hopkins | Jul 1, 2022 | Opinion
Francis Bellamy, the author of the original pledge that became, with modifications, the official U.S. Pledge of Allegiance, was a Baptist minister’s son from upstate New York. Educated in public schools, he distinguished himself in oratory at the University of...
by Jim Hopkins | May 6, 2022 | Opinion
My colleague Lauren Lisa Ng is a poet, a preacher and a mother. Her poem, The New, is a reflection on an ordinary day in her life. The poem concludes, “I’ll build the border of a puzzle, stand from my desk before the sun starts is setting, remove backpacks from tired...
by Jim Hopkins | Apr 13, 2022 | Opinion
Strange. That’s how biblical scholar Marcus Borg characterized the letter of Jude. In Evolution of the Word, he wrote, “Jude is perhaps the strangest document in the New Testament. It is one of the shortest, about a page long, and is the most enigmatic.” One of the...
