by Mark Woods | Mar 25, 2022 | Opinion
Editor’s note: “Look Back” is a series designed to highlight articles from the Good Faith Media archives that remain relevant or historically interesting. This article is being reposted to call attention to the United Nations International Day of Remembrance of the...
by Fiona Vernal | Mar 24, 2022 | Opinion
The 15th anniversary of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade is an auspicious time to reconsider the etymology of the word “commemorate.” Coined in the 1590s, as sugar was poised to revolutionize Atlantic...
by Monty Self | Mar 24, 2022 | Opinion
Russia continues to claim that the United States is supporting an illegal biological weapons lab in Ukraine. The United Nations security council met on March 11 to discuss these allegations, releasing its conclusions one week later that no evidence exists to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 23, 2022 | Opinion
Words can have amazing power, so long as we grant it to them. In a story familiar by now, a popular Catholic priest in Arizona had to resign when someone realized he had been using one wrong word when performing baptisms. Andres Arango had served three different...
by Danielle L Bridgeforth | Mar 23, 2022 | Opinion
We can often have a hard time with repentance. Yes, most of us would eagerly admit that “We all make mistakes” and “We’re only human.” Nevertheless, in most instances, we think we are right. And even when we know we are at fault, we can usually justify whatever we did...
by Jim Hill | Mar 23, 2022 | Opinion
I grew up in a Southern Baptist pastor’s home within a denomination that has a long and tragic history of racism. The convention was founded primarily over the issue of slavery. Not only did white Baptists in the South support slavery, but they have a profound legacy...
