by Mitch Randall | Oct 21, 2021 | Opinion
Applications for religious exemptions to COVID-19 vaccine requirements are on the rise. The request for a religious exemption is provided by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. According to NPR, the law “protects workers from discrimination on the basis of...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 15, 2021 | Opinion
Indigenous cultures and systems existed throughout North America prior to 1492. In his book, 1491, Charles C. Mann chronicles the nuances and complexities of Indigenous cultures and systems, which involved complex social and economic structures for governance,...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 14, 2021 | Opinion
I am a citizen of the Muscogee Creek Nation whose ancestors lived peacefully on the lands of present-day Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee for centuries. While most everyone knows me as Mitch Randall, my other name was given to me by a Comanche Chief: NUMUKUTSU, which...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 13, 2021 | Opinion
The genocide of the Indigenous peoples of North America began 529 years ago this week. On Oct. 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus set foot on what is now called The Bahamas, claiming Spanish ownership of the land and its inhabitants. Funded by Queen Isabella and King...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 7, 2021 | Opinion
The late theologian Phyllis Tickle argued in her book, The Great Emergence, that the church goes through a “rummage sale” approximately every 500 years. It was her belief that we are currently “living in and through one of those five-hundred-year sales.” Tickle’s...
