by Peggy Haymes | Aug 13, 2025 | Opinion
Editor’s note: The following is the third in a five-part series by Peggy Haymes on grief as spiritual formation. He called as soon as he learned of my father’s death. “What can we do?” my neighbor asked. “I’m fine,” I said—my stock answer. It didn’t satisfy him, and...
by Kerri Fisher | Aug 13, 2025 | Opinion
I lost five relatives this year. The two oldest and most revered women in our family both moved on after beautiful, wild and peaceful existences—despite all the attempts to mar, tame and disturb them during their century on earth as Black women. The cousin closest to...
by Craig Nash | Aug 13, 2025 | Opinion
As President Trump gears up for a meeting later this week with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss possible resolutions to Putin’s war against Ukraine, the Ukrainian people are increasingly supportive of a negotiated settlement to end the war, according to a...
by Justin Cox | Aug 12, 2025 | Opinion
“You ever hear of the Alabama Astronaut, preacher?” The question came from the voice of a friend. We’d been having one of those conversations where the dogs get loose and chase every rabbit sprinting down your tongue. An hour on the phone with some folks can feel like...
by Rebecca M. David Hensley | Aug 12, 2025 | Opinion
It is difficult to comprehend the unimaginable suffering we are witnessing as a global community. The images of starving children are the making of nightmares, if we are fortunate enough to sleep. The impotence so many of us feel to do anything about it—especially as...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 11, 2025 | Opinion
Eugenic and nationalist imaginaries are retelling the same old stories of a favored “race” with God-given superiority and the church’s blessing to steal land predestined to be colonized. It’s a “Master Narrative” set, the Doctrine of Discovery, Manifest Destiny, and...
