by Suzii Paynter | Mar 26, 2019 | Opinion
Each morning going on 10 years, I start the day with juice from a small glass painted with a single white line. Above the line is the Spanish word “optimista.” Below it, the word “pessimista.” Which way to see the day? Half empty or half full. It is a prayer, or at...
by Suzii Paynter | Apr 4, 2018 | Opinion
Having just completed the pilgrimage of Lent to Easter, now I think about what it means to be an Emmaus-Christian, ready to run full speed back in to the waiting city to be witnesses to our own experience of blessing and love and to be the hands and feet of Jesus, the...
by Suzii Paynter | Dec 14, 2017 | Opinion
God created us hungry. We are born with two immediate hungers: the hunger for nourishment and the hunger to learn. Our universal condition as learning beings makes education a central article in any declaration of rights. Article 26 of the United Nations Universal...
by Suzii Paynter | Aug 8, 2012 | Opinion
Not too long ago, I ran into Kyle Henderson, pastor of First Baptist Church of Athens, Texas, in a downtown Dallas hamburger place. We had a lot of things to talk about, but I remember his energy and focus when he said about people of faith: “We need to be about...
