by Starlette Thomas | Oct 30, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
My introduction to violence was intimate and domestic. My father’s fist met my mother’s face at night. Maybe that’s why I never want to see it again. Violence was familial, which made it familiar. Like the back of my father’s hand, I knew it when I saw it. Far from...
by Kevin Heifner | Oct 30, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I have served as a board member in support of Good Faith Media for many years. GFM is an organization that makes an impact in times when clarity, reflection, civil discourse and truth-telling are often in short supply. The values of Good Faith Media reflect my own....
by Randall Balmer | Oct 27, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
When I was in ninth grade, my family moved from Bay City, Michigan to Des Moines, Iowa. As a preacher’s kid, I had grown accustomed to dislocation—changing towns, neighborhoods and schools—but this one was especially difficult. Ninth grade in Michigan was high...
by Sara Fimmano | Oct 27, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Some say that churches are all the same. But were they ever diverse? In his article, “Church Attendance Used to Drive up Trust: It Doesn’t Anymore,” Ryan Burge suggests that the diminishing correlation between church attendance and interpersonal trust is a...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 26, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Ken Burns recently released a new documentary on PBS, “The American Buffalo.” The film chronicles the harmonious, complex and deadly relationship between America’s greatest indigenous animal and the humans living alongside it. “The first time I looked into the eyes of...
by Bruce Prescott | Oct 26, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
“Killers of the Flower Moon” portrays the grief the Osage people felt when the federal government required that their children be sent to boarding schools, which were charged with assimilating them to the white man’s culture and religion. The movie filmed a memorable...
