by Delaney Metcalf | Nov 19, 2025 | Opinion
The tables are set, and you’re sitting at one. Every day, in every room, we reenact the same quiet sorting: who belongs, who doesn’t, who gets welcomed, who gets ignored. It’s not just middle school lunchrooms anymore. It’s our churches, our neighborhoods, our social...
by Delaney Metcalf | Oct 31, 2025 | Opinion
I grew up under oak trees in Raleigh, North Carolina. They were my steady companions through every season of my childhood: green in the summer, red, orange, brown and yellow in the fall, bare and beautiful in winter. I watched them grow as I did. But inside our house,...
by Delaney Metcalf | Mar 10, 2025 | Opinion
When I first encountered redemption through Christ, I thought it was a singular event. I was “saved” at my baptism in 2008, and it was done. Somehow, being washed reconciled me with God. It made my parents and congregation happy, and I went on my merry way. Sin was...
