by Mary Alice Birdwhistell | May 20, 2026 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following was first published on Mary Alice Birdwhistell’s Substack. “Rededicate 250” was held last Sunday in Washington, D.C. Growing up in a church with weekly altar calls, I was regularly given the opportunity to “rededicate” my life to...
by Mary Alice Birdwhistell | Nov 1, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Kentucky author George Ella Lyon has a great poem titled “Where I’m From.” In it, she offers snapshots of her childhood growing up in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky and the people who have been part of her own story. Recently, my church enjoyed writing our own...
by Mary Alice Birdwhistell | Sep 28, 2020 | Opinion
I can hear helicopters circling over my city as I write these words. It’s a few hours after the attorney general’s announcement about Breonna Taylor here in Louisville. Sickness settles in my stomach as I begin to digest the news that one officer was indicted because...
