by Ken Sehested | Jun 2, 2022 | Opinion
Easter is God’s resurrection moment; Pentecost is God’s resurrection movement. On Easter, God declares divine intention; on Pentecost, God deploys divine insurgents. On Easter, God announces the invasion; Pentecost is when God establishes a beachhead. At...
by Michael Chancellor | Jun 1, 2022 | Opinion
Politicians often seem to act as experts about everything once they are elected. After the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting, the overwhelming consensus of Governor Greg Abbott and others was that this was a “mental health” problem. Before I address this...
by Starlette Thomas | May 31, 2022 | Opinion
Where’s my mother supposed to go grocery shopping now? The mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that took 10 souls and permanently injured three others continues to take away from this predominately African American community. Now, she must change her schedule, drive...
by Angela Grant | May 31, 2022 | Opinion
I’ve been thinking about moving recently. While I don’t have a destination in mind, as an M.K. (missionary kid) I crossed the Pacific several times, and now a move every few years feels normal. Wherever I might go, I know I would have a nice place to live. Though I...
by Cameron Vickrey | May 27, 2022 | Opinion
“Joy is the gift of love, grief is the price of love, and rage is that which protects what is loved.” I keep repeating these words of Valarie Kaur, an activist and spiritual teacher, over and over. Joy — so easily stolen. Grief — so unnecessary. Rage — so inescapable....
by Wendell Griffen | May 27, 2022 | Opinion
At the end of each message sent from my personal email account is a quote from South African liberation theologian Allan Boesak that I have appropriated for the title of this column. Boesak’s statement, “The Time for Pious Words is Over,” is part of the title of...
