by Keith Herron | Mar 8, 2025 | Feature, Opinion
Luke 4:1-13 “Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, left the Jordan and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where for forty days he was tempted by the devil…” A few years ago, two friends who were priests serving at our neighborhood Catholic Church decided they would...
by Sterling Smith | Mar 6, 2025 | Opinion
I grew up in Arkansas in the 1950s and remember when snow came to the Ozark Mountains many times in winter. These days, however, seasonal snowstorms occur infrequently. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts that NW Arkansas will soon...
by K. Mekhi Jackson | Mar 6, 2025 | Opinion
Preaching has a sacred weight. Those of us who proclaim the gospel stand in the long line of prophets, poets, and truth-tellers who have dared to speak life into the world. We pour out our hearts, calling for justice, offering hope, and making meaning in a world that...
by Craig Nash | Mar 5, 2025 | Opinion
Gennadiy Mokhnenko, part of the 200-member chaplain battalion in Ukraine, was driving away from the front lines when he noticed a Russian kamikaze drone trailing him. “I pushed down on all the gas,” he told me. “My car was just a little faster than the drone.” With an...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 5, 2025 | Opinion
The guardians of white privilege normalize and legitimize a way of thinking and being that enslaves minds while allegedly freeing bodies. If the mind can be colonized, then those who society is constructed to benefit don’t need to worry about resistance to oppression....
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Mar 4, 2025 | Opinion
Growing up in the church, I never saw a woman behind the pulpit. For much of my childhood, until I was a teenager, it never occurred to me that women could even serve in such a role. Even when I first encountered the idea, the concept felt distant, almost...
