by Mitch Randall | Sep 22, 2022 | Opinion
I was honored to hear Lenore Three Stars, Oglala Lakota leader and advocate for Indigenous causes. She was one of the featured speakers at the 2022 Nevertheless She Preached conference in Austin, Texas, this week. Three Stars was born on Pine Ridge Reservation in...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 4, 2022 | Opinion
Vin Scully was the radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 years. For baseball fans, he was a living legend. Paired with former major leaguer Joe Garagiola for nationally televised games on NBC, they were two of the...
by Geneece Goertzen | Jun 28, 2022 | Opinion
I clearly remember one specific portion of my very first convocation in seminary. There was a generalized feeling of awe upon me as I entered Truett Seminary’s chapel in the fall of 2018. I felt what probably could best be described as that “cloud of witnesses” in the...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 21, 2022 | Jesus Worldview Initiative, Opinion
A friend was lamenting the overt racism, loss of truthfulness and the absence of compassion in American society today. Prompting the answer that I knew he knew, I asked: “And from where do these attitudes and actions come?” “Church people,” he said sadly and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 12, 2022 | Opinion
In a column from last October (“Going in Style”), I described the discovery of a palatial residence on a hill overlooking Jerusalem, found during salvage excavations in 1919-20. The residence was near what is now known as Arnon Hanatziv Promenade, a public park where...