by Craig Nash | Mar 12, 2025 | Opinion
On Friday, March 13, 2020, while working out in the university fitness center, I received two successive notifications on my phone. The first was that the U.S. president had declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency. The second was that the NCAA had canceled...
by Mary Dyer | Mar 12, 2025 | Opinion
Sheryl and I were finally in line to check our baggage for our trip to Santa Fe. We were going to visit friends and hopefully find our “forever” home where we could retire. New Mexico is a land of many peoples, cultures, and histories and is politically aligned with...
by Don Gordon | Mar 12, 2025 | Opinion
The meaning of the 19th-century nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” has been clouded in mystery since it first became popularized in Lewis Caroll’s 1871 book, “Through the Looking Glass.” Caroll depicted Humpty Dumpty as an anthropomorphic egg, fragile and impossible to...
by Randall Balmer | Mar 11, 2025 | Opinion
Evangelicals are too liberal. Who knew? That’s the assertion of Andrew T. Walker in an article in “World” magazine titled, “It’s OK to be a Christian Conservative.” I had to look twice to see that I was reading the title correctly, but there it is. To be clear, I...
by Starlette Thomas | Mar 10, 2025 | Opinion
“Was that ‘The Color Purple’?” I turned to my teenage cousin and asked as the lights in the theater came on. “Yes,” she said. I couldn’t believe what I had seen. I was six years old when the film adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epistolary novel...
by Delaney Metcalf | Mar 10, 2025 | Opinion
When I first encountered redemption through Christ, I thought it was a singular event. I was “saved” at my baptism in 2008, and it was done. Somehow, being washed reconciled me with God. It made my parents and congregation happy, and I went on my merry way. Sin was...
