by Preston Clegg | May 19, 2020 | Opinion
“Ahmaud Arbery” “Two God-fearing men” I cannot get these words out of my mind. They are a reminder of the tragic results from the ideology, the religion, of white supremacy, in which white lives are idolized and black lives matter little. White supremacy seeks to...
by Preston Clegg | May 18, 2020 | Opinion
“Ahmaud Arbery” “Two God-fearing men” Some words will not let you go. I’ve been repeating those words and wondering what one phrase has to do with the other. On Feb. 23, two white men, Gregory and Travis McMichael, murdered Ahmaud Arbery, a black man jogging in a...
by Preston Clegg | Nov 5, 2019 | Opinion
Second Baptist Church of Little Rock, Arkansas, placed 237 white crosses on the lawn by its parking lot in late September. We did so to honor the memory of the victims of the Elaine Massacre, which occurred 100 years ago. Along with the crosses, there was a sign which...
by Preston Clegg | May 20, 2019 | Opinion
“Pastor, can I have a word with you?” Some years ago, one of the ladies in my church posed this question to me on a Sunday morning. She entered my study and said, “I have two items on my nightstand: a Bible which I read every night and a picture of my son for whom I...
by Preston Clegg | Nov 25, 2015 | Opinion
Be afraid, be very afraid. This is the motto of our age. Fear is in the air. We breathe it in, and it travels up and down our bloodstream, from our heart to our head and back again. Fear becomes part and parcel to our very being. It cultivates paranoia that has no...
