by Jordan Rowan Fannin | Apr 23, 2025 | Opinion
Pope Francis was a man who knew poverty. As the Catholic Church’s leader, he made poverty visible as an act of theological witness. As the church’s shepherd, he sought to ameliorate it with pastoral tenderness. As a Baptist, Pope Francis held no formal ecclesial role...
by Jordan Rowan Fannin | Apr 9, 2020 | Opinion
The fear you feel right now, the unease that tightens your chest, clenches your jaw and disturbs your sleep is not simply worry about your income, productivity or health. It is the creeping realization we are dependent beings, knit into a garment of mutuality and...
by Jordan Rowan Fannin | Apr 8, 2020 | Opinion
Lent is holy timekeeping for those of us who follow the church’s calendar. It begins each year on that first Wednesday when we hear someone remind us that we will die. With ashen faces, we spend the next 40 days marking time with a season of contemplation and acts of...
