by Lisa Harrison | Apr 1, 2025 | Opinion
Some books make you think, and then there are books that make you feel–and maybe even change. “The Real Conversation Jesus Wants Us to Have” by Regina V. Cates is that rare book that does all three. In a time when public discourse is increasingly divisive and personal...
by Marquis Hunt | Mar 31, 2025 | Opinion
In a striking interview on “Amanpour & Company,” journalist Michel Martin spoke with Ambassador Arikana Chihombori-Quao, former Permanent Representative of the African Union to the United States. Their exchange cut through the usual rhetoric of foreign aid,...
by Keith Herron | Mar 29, 2025 | Opinion
Psalm 32 “Happy are those whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered…” We all live under the shadow of our culpability, masked by our denial of the true state of things. We live in an illusion about what we’ve done. Maturity is the process by which we shed...
by Brad Bull | Mar 29, 2025 | News, Opinion
I’m sitting in my new house in the greater Nashville area, asking myself, “If a mentor is a ‘wise and trusted counselor,’ and you found Kenneth Dean to be your wise and trusted counselor, why haven’t you followed his advice? In fact, you just moved 1/120th of a degree...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 28, 2025 | Opinion
Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk planned to meet friends at an Iftar dinner on Tuesday to break their Ramadan fast. Ozturk never made it. As she walked on the sidewalk in Somerville, Massachusetts, the Tufts University Ph.D. candidate was taken into custody by six...
by Michael Parnell | Mar 28, 2025 | Opinion
Movies take us where we ordinarily can’t go, allowing us to enter into lives and places and observe them up close. Sometimes, what we see about human nature is not flattering. They prompt us to wonder how those people can live with themselves. The characters in “Black...
