by Sean Palmer | Jun 16, 2026 | Opinion
Steven Spielberg has spent fifty years looking at the sky. Close Encounters of the Third Kind looked up in wonder. E.T. looked up in longing. War of the Worlds looked up in terror. Disclosure Day, Spielberg’s latest film, looks up and then, almost immediately, looks...
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 Michael Chancellor | Oct 9, 2025 | Opinion
In 2022, Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA, declared, “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that…does a lot of damage.” I wasn’t aware of this quote until after Kirk’s assassination. The...
by Jamie Marich | Apr 10, 2025 | Opinion
“That completely makes sense that you would be going to seminary.” “Why are you going to seminary? You already have a great career where you’re well-established. You do a lot of spiritual things with that.” “I didn’t realize that you were so religious. That’s sad.”...
