by Luke Emerson | Sep 10, 2025 | Opinion
Recently, hundreds of undergraduate students gathered at Centre College’s annual Expo, an event that connects anxious first-year college students with eager club presidents, local vendors, nonprofits and campus offices. Expo serves to orient students on the...
by Michael Chancellor | Sep 10, 2025 | Opinion
With the daily news of Jeffrey Epstein’s victimization of young women revealing new layers to his crimes, it is helpful to consider the components of sexual assault and the tools that survivors can use in the wake of assault. Sexual predator behavior, in all its...
by Craig Nash | Sep 9, 2025 | Opinion
When Rebecca Sue (Becky) Norris wrote to her sister in tears and said, “I tried to read your book, but it was boring,” Kathleen Norris understood the dig at her 1994 memoir, Dakota: A Spiritual Geography, to be an outpouring of jealousy. She saw the tears as an...
by Colin Harris | Sep 9, 2025 | Opinion
Back in the day, when I taught sections of our “Introduction to Religion” course, we would discuss the role of religion in public life. I would enjoy asking, “Do you know the TV minister who has enjoyed the largest viewing audience of all time?” Students would answer...
by David Wheeler | Sep 9, 2025 | Opinion
Hermeneutical Questions As Baptists have affirmed and practiced our classic “freedoms”—soul freedom, Bible freedom and congregational freedom—shifting cultural contexts and newly affirmed personal experiences have pushed our conversations forward, as they should. But...
by Starlette Thomas | Sep 8, 2025 | Opinion
Stay woke. The axiom has recently come under scrutiny and been redefined by conservative politicians as a pejorative term. While now seemingly synonymous with attempts at diversity, equity and inclusion by their liberal colleagues, it is a maxim that dates to the 20th...
