by Miguel A. De La Torre | Oct 10, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
The day after I flew out of Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv, Hamas fired more than 2,000 missiles into Israel from the Gaza strip. Israel responded unmercifully. Hundreds are dead, thousands wounded. These numbers are expected to rise as Israeli Prime Minister...
by Starlette Thomas | Oct 9, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
This is not about an election. The church should not mark its progress in four-year cycles but instead consider the times and work while it is day—because night is coming. This is not about the other side of the aisle as if a country can be split down the middle....
by Jack Glasgow | Oct 9, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
In the summer of 1965, when I was ten years old, my father was asked to serve on a special committee created by the Atlanta Board of Education. He was told he would be paid as a summer school teacher if he agreed to serve. As a coach and teacher who earned income to...
by Wendell Griffen | Oct 6, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I remember how private schools were imagined, established, financed and operated to prevent all children from being educated together. I remember how the supporters of those private schools complained that their hard-earned tax dollars were spent to maintain public...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 5, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Good Faith Media was invited to attend the 2023 Conference of the Muslims for Progressive Values at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Muslims speakers and leaders convened to discuss advancing progressive values within the Muslim faith, educate non-Muslims...
by Wendell Griffen | Oct 5, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I am a product of public education. I was born September 23, 1952—making me now 71 years old—when Jim Crow public segregation was required by law in Arkansas. Although my family lived less than three miles from Delight High School in Pike County, I didn’t know where...
