by Jessica Mark | Apr 30, 2026 | Opinion
Last November, a colleague and I traveled for a week to Matanzas and Oliva, Cuba, to share the bodywork therapy we practice, Ortho-Bionomy, with our friends there. Ortho-Bionomy is a gentle form of bodywork that supports the body’s innate wisdom to self-correct and...
by Brad Jeffcoat | Apr 29, 2026 | Opinion
Very loud people have declared that a person who is transgender is so fundamentally different and “delusional” that it is impossible for “normal people” to understand. I don’t believe that is true. I bet we’ve all had moments when we felt the people around us weren’t...
by Giorgio W.K. Hiatt | Apr 29, 2026 | Opinion
“No take-backs!” Every child knows injustice when she experiences it. You can’t make a move and then change it on a whim. It’s not right. It’s not fair. It ruins the game. The plight of refugee families is not a game, yet the current policies and practices of...
by Chantal Morales McKinney | Apr 28, 2026 | Opinion
The recent news of Dolores Huerta sharing about the sexual abuse she endured from Cesar Chavez stunned me. Not because of what she endured, but rather how she articulated why she kept quiet for so long. Ms. Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that...
by Holly Berkley Fletcher | Apr 28, 2026 | Opinion
Growing up as a Southern Baptist in the 1980s and 1990s, I often heard gloating about the denomination’s growth, as well as that of other conservative, evangelical churches. Southern Baptists in particular assiduously tracked numbers of “decisions for Christ,”...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 27, 2026 | Opinion
While femicide is a tale older than the time of the Hebrew scriptures, its discussion as criminal has not reached consensus. Instead, other rationales are offered to explain his alter ego and her body on his ego-altar: his loss of employment, loss of marriage, loss of...