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Letter from the Editor: This Moment in the American Story
This moment in the American story feels like that time in class when the teacher told everyone to be quiet and listen. You remember. You were there. There was a student, or maybe two or ten, who wouldn’t stop talking. They were in a conversation or laughing about something. They were brazenly...
Can We Close Pandora’s Box of Disrespect?
Who will be our modern-day leader of peace? What will it take for that kind of display to go viral and change societal norms?
GFM Statement on Incident at Trump Rally
The team at Good Faith Media, without equivocation, is praying for former President Trump’s health and safety. We also pray for his family, the attendees at the rally, and our country.
Riding On Sundown Drive
Those who have listened to the Good Faith Weekly podcast over the last few months will recall that Missy and I decided to sell our house and downsize to a hundred-year-old home near downtown Norman,...
Movie Review| We Still Need to Talk About Possum Trot
The large number of children still in need of adoption today makes the conversation about what happened at Possum Trot, Texas, just as important as when it first occurred.
Project 2025 Spins the Greatest Hits: “They’re Coming For Your Children!”
For those of us who spent seasons of our lives being discipled by a mix of Focus on the Family, Rush Limbaugh and pastors who preached behind plexiglass pulpits, nothing in Project 2025 is a surprise. Most of its content is simply the “greatest hits” of those who sense their historic positions of power and control slipping from underneath their feet.
Buen Camino: On the Journey with Miguel A De La Torre
Since June 24th, I have been walking el camino France, a 791-kilometer trek (a little under 500 miles) that starts at St. Jean Pied de Port in France and ends at Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Legend has it that the body of Santiago the apostle— beheaded by Herod— is housed there.
On the Road to Samaria
As a nation, we have handed over the task of dying to professionals. We don’t plan and execute our own memorial or funeral services or prepare bodies for burial. We hand on all this to total strangers as we sit back silently and passively.
Project 2025 Takes Aim at a Favorite Conservative Punching Bag: School Meals
Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s agenda for the first few months of a potential second Trump Presidency, calls for the complete elimination of the Community Eligibility Provision. In addition, it calls for an end to the Summer Food Service Program for students not enrolled in summer school.
A Come-to-Jesus Meeting: The Raceless Gospel for Children
Race justifies a color-coded hierarchy, a kind of social ranking, that supports “relationships of ruling.” It is the “epidermalization of inferiority,” meaning we tuck interpretations like “less than” under some people’s skin–skin that is 0.2 inches thick, proving how we lose our sense of human being and belonging by the thinnest of margins.
College Persistence and Retention Rates See Slight Uptick
A new report reveals a slight rise in the rates of students who continue to pursue degrees after their first year of college.
Project 2025’s Danger Lies More in its Assumptions than its Proposals
Hidden in an obscure corner of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s 900-page agenda for a potential second Trump administration is a concerning proposal for the Department of Labor.
Five Years Later: Remembering the Mississippi Workplace Raids
On Wednesday, August 7, 2019, over the course of just a few hours, approximately 600 federal agents detained 680 people working in food processing plants in the small Mississippi towns of Canton, Carthage, Forest, Morton, Sebastopol, Bay Springs and Pelahatchie.
You are not Broken: The Value of Failure
Perfection is a myth from fairytales. Real life is complex, challenging and bound for failure.
The Way of Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman is in Texas. Since 2020, she’s been traveling and spreading her message of bodily autonomy, innate freedom and self- emancipation through Wesley Wofford’s “Journey to Freedom” sculpture. That people still gather around her is the sweetest repetition of history.
Wisdom Wherever You Find It | How Will I Be Remembered?
ames Manson “Manse” Patton, who was from the neighboring town of Paint Rock, ran a bank on the principle that “A man’s character is his best collateral.”