by Miguel A. De La Torre | Aug 5, 2025 | Opinion
Before Trump became president, the “Art of the Deal” was littered with failed business ventures and bankruptcies. According to Forbes, before he became a reality television star, Trump’s net worth in 1988 was estimated to be $1 billion. By the following year, his...
by K. Mekhi Jackson | Aug 5, 2025 | Opinion
To speak of reimagining the Black Church is to stand in a long tradition of holy critique and sacred hope. The Black Church, in all its denominational expressions, has never been static. It has evolved through enslavement, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 4, 2025 | Opinion
President Donald Trump recently dodged a Jeffrey Epstein question by attacking former President Barack Obama, accusing him of treason. His latest attempt to deflect suggests Obama still lives rent-free in his head, which made me tilt mine. Trump: “And except for the...
by Ron Perritt | Aug 4, 2025 | Opinion
Engineers are problem solvers. We seek to understand how things work or why they don’t. We apply ideas and concepts that enable us to make coherent sense of the world in which we live. When I was growing up in church, the Holy Spirit was a difficult concept. It was...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 1, 2025 | Opinion
There was a time in my faith journey when I believed truth meant certainty grounded by “correct” belief and practice. Based on this lofty notion, I also felt my mission was to bring everyone I encountered to the place where my faith and practice resided. If anyone...
by Erin Parks | Aug 1, 2025 | Opinion
As I have watched the news, written, prayed and moved about my life during this summer in which tyrants and evil seem to be “getting their way,” my first instinct is to rely on my heavily pragmatic Protestant upbringing. What can I do when the world is burning? I turn...
