by Craig Nash | Dec 4, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Note: The following contains minor story-arc spoilers for HBO/Max’s “Somebody Somewhere.” The collision between the streaming era of television and fraught political and cultural times has produced a new question to the menu of small talk we make in...
by Sarah Boberg | Dec 4, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Recently, my family took a trip to Charleston, South Carolina. Charleston is beautiful and haunted, with a plethora of amazing foods and attractive homes. Church steeples pepper the skyline, a sign of the history of faith existing alongside the beautiful and haunted....
by Marquis Hunt | Dec 3, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following is republished with permission from Marquis Hunt’s blog. It has been minimally edited to reflect the passage of time. Honesty in Discourse First, let me start by saying this: I’m not mad at white people. Neither do I hate white people....
by Starlette Thomas | Dec 2, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
See Laken Riley run. See the nursing student fight for her life for seventeen minutes while jogging through the woods at the University of Georgia. A United Nations report found that last year, over 51,000 women and girls around the world were killed by a family...
by Preston Clegg | Dec 2, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
The moment God spoke, “Let there be…” into the great silence before time, God made physical realities spiritual and spiritual realities physical. The church’s sacramental tradition teaches us just that: holy things are fleshy, the spiritual is physical, and...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Dec 2, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Last week, an underground fire was steadily burning behind the outlet malls in town. Its heat caused part of the back parking lot to collapse, and the smoke from the burning asphalt was thick and black, compromising the air quality for those who live near the...