by David Wheeler | Apr 19, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
I have resonated with the Earth and its creatures since long before the first Earth Day was celebrated 53 years ago. In fact, I was an “ecologist” before I knew the word. As a small boy, I wandered around the undeveloped fields bordering our subdivision in Louisville,...
by Aaron Weaver | Apr 22, 2021 | Opinion
The stories of Asian Americans have, unfortunately, been neglected or outright ignored in Baptist histories. This is regrettable, especially so in the case of one extremely notable Asian American leader, Jitsuo Morikawa, once dubbed by Tony Campolo as “the most...
by Helle Liht | Apr 21, 2021 | Opinion
One of the key concepts of climate change mitigation is integration. Documents produced by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UNIPCC) consider integration as an assumption for ecological renewal. And rightly so. In these documents,...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 22, 2019 | Opinion
Yellowstone National Park was ablaze in the summer of 1988. From June to November, numerous fires consumed over 1.2 million acres across the area, leaving residents and visitors with the horrifying illusion that the park had been destroyed. Scorched trunks from tall...
by David Wheeler | Feb 12, 2019 | Opinion
When I was a boy in Kentucky, a drive on a summer evening would load up the windshield and the grille of our car with the sticky remains of deceased insects. Every porchlight was surrounded from dusk to dawn with a living halo of moths and June bugs. Children staying...