by Wendell Griffen | Sep 20, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
“To Kill a Mockingbird” is Harper Lee’s classic novel about racial injustice. In chapter 22, we read an unforgettable line spoken by Miss Maudie, a white woman, to Jem Finch, a white boy. Jem’s father is a lawyer, Atticus Finch. And Atticus had just...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 29, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
White Americanized Christians are easily seduced. They are drawn in large numbers to authoritarian personalities like squirrels to a freshly-filled bird feeder. Some slick-talking autocrat can stir up fear — and then offer himself as the one to save them from it. And...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 3, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
While driving on I-15 in Southern California last year, I had luckily chosen the second lane from the left. It was both startling and a bit surreal when a car at a high speed passed me in the lane to my left — coming toward me. Looking in the rearview mirror, I prayed...
by Colin Harris | May 26, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
My recent discovery of a collection of lectures by the famous and influential Viktor Frankl – Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything – has offered a compelling invitation to think about history’s refinement of our perspectives on life at one of its significant...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Feb 14, 2023 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
I am a big fan of letting white Christian nationalists define themselves, whether in action or word. After all, who better to do so? January 6 defined white Christian nationalism in both action and word. On that ignoble day, several thousand white, self-identified...