by Samuel Shepley | Mar 20, 2025 | Opinion
Since 2017, Home is Where has been making cathartic, eclectic and intense music. The emo band from Palm Coast, Florida pulls from a variety of influences, including post-hardcore, Midwest emo and country. Home is Where’s songs feature vocal screams from the incredibly...
by Grace Pixton | Mar 19, 2025 | Opinion
Dating in college is complicated. Dating at a Christian college is made even more so by pressure from the church. For students who follow Jonathan Pokluda, that pressure doubled with the debut of his new dating app, Qualified Date (QD). Pokluda “hard launched” QD on...
by Christopher Schelin | Mar 19, 2025 | Opinion
Last Sunday, we sang a familiar hymn. It followed the sermon, as it typically does in Baptist churches. But this time, the hymn felt radically different. I suddenly realized that “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus” is a political declaration. Growing up, this hymn was...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 18, 2025 | Opinion
I was an undocumented immigrant in the country responsible for my expatriation. While living in a rat-and-roach-infested one-room apartment in the slums of Manhattan, my family and I received individual letters from the U.S. government. Dated June 21, 1960, the...
by Angela Yarber | Mar 18, 2025 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a new series of bi-monthly articles from Angela Yarber of Tehom Center Publishing. Tehom specializes in creating spaces for feminist and queer authors, specializing in centering BIPOC voices. As progressive churches respond...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 17, 2025 | Opinion
In the summer of 2020, I left my home in Bowie, Maryland, and traveled to Washington, D.C. We were far from having a cure for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), with the first human case being reported in December of 2019. But George Floyd had been viciously murdered...