by Sean Palmer | Mar 6, 2026 | Opinion
Black people’s pain and humiliation have long been turned into entertainment, from minstrel shows to modern “gotcha” media moments that turn Black suffering into content. The BAFTA broadcast that aired a racial slur directed at Black actors Michael B. Jordan and...
by Angela Yarber | Mar 6, 2026 | Opinion
Today’s Belief Behind the Book is Brittany Hart’s Surviving Wonderland: A Journey Beyond Control. There are books that inform, and there are books that liberate. Hart’s Surviving Wonderland is the latter. In a time when many...
by Michelle Wahila | Mar 5, 2026 | Opinion
The news cycle is perpetually drawing us toward the next crisis. Its haste doesn’t allow us the time we need to reflect. It takes me longer than a 24-hour news cycle to meditate on the words spoken, challenge my preconceived ideas and gather research to support my...
by Lloyd Mann | Mar 5, 2026 | Opinion
Much of my life, I have been an immigrant. Born in Oklahoma City, I emigrated at age 6 with my mother and sister to Japan in 1947 to join my father, an Army chaplain, as some of the first civilians to enter Japan after World War II. We were stared at, laughed at and...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 4, 2026 | Opinion
The other day, I was strutting through the mall like it was my personal runway, operating under the firm belief that I was a deliciously hot Latino man. In my head, I was the love child of Bad Bunny, Pedro Pascal, and Oscar Isaac—too sexy for these clearance-rack...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | Mar 4, 2026 | Opinion
United Methodists (UMC) have taken a stand for justice in many ways throughout the church’s history, from opposing slavery to supporting the labor and Civil Rights movements, as well as the 1980s sanctuary movement for Central American refugees. Methodists have also...
