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...
by Mary Dyer | Sep 8, 2025 | Opinion
While on a study trip in the holy land, a tour guide told my wife and me about the Angel of Hebron, an obscure story of hope amid ongoing oppression in the land of Israel. The Ottoman Empire ruled Palestine for over four centuries, from 1516 until its collapse...
by K. Mekhi Jackson | Sep 8, 2025 | Opinion
Long before the forced journey across the Atlantic, African societies held deeply spiritual understandings of death and burial. Among the Akan of West Africa, the concept of abusua pa—“good family”—meant funerals were communal rituals affirming one’s place in the...
