by Mandy McMichael | May 1, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on August 2, 2013. At the time of publication, McMichael was assistant professor of religion at Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama. It is re-published today, with the one-year anniversary of Rachel Held Evans’ death...
by Mandy McMichael | Feb 26, 2020 | Opinion
Pentecost is my favorite day of the Christian year. I love the red, the excitement, the passion, the Spirit. The solemn drama of Ash Wednesday is a close second. Ash Wednesday inspires in ways impossible to describe. I recognize the oddity of prizing a day of great...
by Mandy McMichael | Nov 25, 2019 | Opinion
Miss America is many things and runs the risk of being everything – and thus nothing. In fact, many people consider Miss America as trivial, inconsequential and, now, an outdated affront. But Miss America, like America itself, has been reinventing itself, and in doing...
by Mandy McMichael | Sep 19, 2013 | Opinion
Sunday night I settled in with a notebook and pen to watch Miss America, just as I have for the past several years. In 2011, I had the opportunity to attend the 90th anniversary pageant in person in Las Vegas, but a trip to Atlantic City was not in the cards this...
by Mandy McMichael | Aug 2, 2013 | Opinion
Rachel Held Evans recently posted a brief piece on CNN’s belief blog about why millennials are leaving the church. If you haven’t taken time to read her insights, I commend them to you. Essentially she argues that millennials are not leaving evangelical...
