by Donald Williams | Jan 30, 2026 | Opinion
ICE agents are descending on American cities with a level of brutality and lawlessness unprecedented in American history. Immigrants and Americans alike are dying at the hands of agents who act more like violent thugs than federal officers. What is driving this...
by Sean Palmer | Jan 29, 2026 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following is the first in a series of columns on faith and film from Sean Palmer, leading up to the Oscars ceremony on March 15. With shaking hands and jittering feet, she sat there, worried. Like every other potential victor, she harbored hope but...
by James Ellis III | Jan 28, 2026 | Opinion
As I was leaving an urban church I pastored, the congregation asked me to share things they should improve for whoever came after me. I recited a line from the title track of Prince’s iconic 1984 album and film Purple Rain: “You say you want a leader, but you can’t...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Jan 27, 2026 | Opinion
I’ve never been a violent person. Even so, I am intimately familiar with the language of violence. I was introduced to it as a teenager in the early 2000s in my charismatic evangelical youth group. Church leaders encouraged us to go everywhere with our “sword” so we...
by Jonathan Greer | Jan 25, 2026 | Opinion
I began 2026 with the grand idea of reading through the Bible in a year. It has been a slow start, not because I am not reading, but because I keep returning to certain texts for closer reading. Genesis is fascinating, full of stories about how the Hebrew people...
