by Christopher B. Harbin | Jul 28, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
We glorify wealth, strength and fame. We take people who already have those attributes and lift them higher as our leaders, our heroes. Jesus comes along. We rush to see him at the courts of the Temple, turning over the tables of the moneychangers and running off...
by Mitch Randall | Jul 27, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Italian writer Dante Alighieri wrote about the nine circles of hell in his masterpiece, Inferno: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery. With all due respect to Mr. Alighieri, I would like to add a tenth circle to this fiery chasm...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jul 26, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
“Freee-domm!!!” At the top of his lungs, the so-called “QAnon Shaman” – also known as Jacob Chansley – walked the hall of Congress and breached the Senate chamber with his fellow “patriots” during the January 6 insurrection crying for freedom. In the name of this...
by Barry Howard | Jul 26, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
These days many have departed or disconnected from the local church. Some are burned out and some have just been burned by the messiness created by mean-spirited or misdirected church people. However, many other members and non-members are thinking in fresh ways about...
by Amy Butler | Jul 25, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
We parked on the curb and our eyes automatically pulled to our left. You couldn’t miss the chain linked fencing surrounding the soaring but now-charred tower of St. Liborious, a prominent German Catholic cathedral that had been a center of the community for families...
by Melissa Randall | Jul 25, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Meet my brother-in-law, Tyler—collector of vintage toys, comic books, records, and tattoos. A lover of films, especially unintentionally bad ones, professional wrestling, concerts, and his Muscogee (Creek) heritage. My brother-in-law is the rare adult for whom gift...
