by Mitch Randall | Dec 6, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
The United Kingdom’s House of Commons backed a proposal last week 330-275 to permit terminally ill adults with a life expectancy of six months or less to seek assistance to end their own lives. The practice is known as “aid-in-dying.” While the bill still faces an...
by Craig Nash | Dec 6, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following appeared at Good Faith Media in January. We are re-sharing it to celebrate today’s release of the deluxe edition of “Where the Flowers Meet the Dew,” which can be purchased or streamed wherever you get your music. It is unlikely the...
by Craig Nash | Dec 5, 2024 | Feature, News
Despite a growing distrust of journalists and the decades-long dismantling of traditional news outlets, a near-record number of Americans believe the media acts as a check on politicians’ worst impulses. A recent Pew Research survey found that almost...
by Starlette Thomas | Dec 5, 2024 | Feature, News
“Fire in the Whole: Embracing Our Righteous Anger with White Christianity and Reclaiming Our Wholeness” is a new book by Robert G. Callahan, II. In the final part of this interview trilogy, we discuss the call to truth-telling around the wounds of white Christianity,...
by Jack Moline | Dec 5, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Eric Hoffer was a longshoreman during the middle of the last century. He grew up in a hardscrabble existence, orphaned, itinerant and impoverished. Early in his life, he recovered somewhat unexpectedly from an injury that took most of his vision. To protect the return...
by Craig Nash | Dec 4, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Note: The following contains minor story-arc spoilers for HBO/Max’s “Somebody Somewhere.” The collision between the streaming era of television and fraught political and cultural times has produced a new question to the menu of small talk we make in...
