by Donald Williams | Oct 8, 2025 | Opinion
Storytelling tropes, conventional devices used for plot development and to move the action forward in a drama, are not unique to contemporary society. Tropes in film often prevent audiences from seeing humans as we really are—people made in the moral and rational...
by Donald Williams | Sep 24, 2025 | Opinion
We daily swim in oceans of passionately embraced opinions about everything from politics and religion to the arts. We elevate personal opinion above all else, as if our perspectives were the authoritative and final word. But what if there is such a thing as objective...
by Donald Williams | Jul 11, 2025 | Opinion
Over his career, Walter Brueggemann published over 100 books and numerous scholarly articles that continue to influence the academy and broader society. His contributions to Christian theology and its intersection with postmodern society are immeasurable. His 1978...
by Donald Williams | May 21, 2025 | Faith and Democracy|Opinion, Opinion
The rise of the second Trump regime has included unprecedented assaults against African American culture and history. Information about famous African Americans has been made less prominent on the Arlington Cemetery website. Gen. Charles Quinton Brown, an African...
by Donald Williams | Dec 12, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
I was raised by a professional teacher who managed a reading lab at a parochial school in Oakland, California. By God’s grace, I have earned degrees from two prestigious institutions–William and Mary and Duke University, where my dissertation was published by Wipf and...
