by Michelle Wahila | Nov 17, 2025 | Opinion
The whirring of the coffee machine draws me toward the kitchen and away from slumber. My furry companion rings his bell. I hear his request and open the door, releasing him into his domain. I close it behind him and reach for the tiny cup filled to the brim with the...
by Kali Cawthon-Freels | Nov 12, 2025 | Opinion
This week, my wife and I celebrate our eighth wedding anniversary. I remember the day we got married fondly. Surrounded by some of our closest friends and dearest loved ones, we made a commitment to one another and to God to be each other’s rock. Eight years later, I...
by Justin Cox | Nov 10, 2025 | Opinion
The first round of eggs goes in the hands of a man who helped me move the chicken coop into place. Up a hill. Smashing into low-hanging branches. Betwixt raised garden beds. A pilgrimage I hope to never make again. For his trouble, he received 12 boxes without...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Nov 5, 2025 | Opinion
The eurocentric Jesus has brought despair, disenfranchisement, and death to communities of color. For the sake of their own salvation, these communities must reject the genocidal Jesus who destroyed Indigenous peoples who refused to bow to the European white God; the...
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,...