by Jessica Lewis | Dec 15, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, colloquially known as the “Mormon” church. My faith journey has led me to a Baptist belief, and I no longer identify as Mormon. However, some aspects of my experience I have carried with me inform my...
by Michael Parnell | Dec 15, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I have said for a long time that one should not go see movies. One should go see directors. It is the director whose hand creates what we see on the screen. One of the greatest directors is Hayao Miyazaki, who has made some of the greatest animated films. “Spirited...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 14, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Could it have more to do with controlling women’s bodies than any attempt to fulfill some biblical prophecy of Isaiah? A close look at the seventh chapter of Isaiah reveals the church’s misinterpretation of the text. In the fourteenth verse, the prophet Isaiah...
by Wyatt Moyer | Dec 14, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I have recently found myself grappling with the stark and disheartening realities that 2023 has thrust upon us. The landscape is marred by mass shootings, school violence, homicides, illicit drug dealings, vandalism, a surge in juvenile crime and the persistent...
by Craig Nash | Dec 13, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Most of my childhood friends received the standard information about Santa— how he gets into houses without a chimney (magic), what happens if you aren’t a good boy or girl (coal) and how he covers so much ground in a single night (a combination of superhuman speed...
by Laura Stephens-Reed | Dec 13, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
The congregations I grew up in often had an undercurrent of shame. The most obvious example of this was the purity pledge I was urged to make as part of a True Love Waits campaign. If I engaged in sexual activity before marriage, I would smudge the image of God within...
