by Michael Chancellor | Sep 16, 2022 | Opinion
Last Sunday marked the 21st anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. When the day ended, 2,977 persons had lost their lives at three different locations: New York City, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. Included in that number are law...
by Greg Milligan | Aug 11, 2022 | Opinion
An invocation at my church on July 4 weekend grabbed my attention and resonated with me in a new way. Stephen Reeves, executive director of Fellowship Southwest, and a member of First Austin, prayed: “Right now, it feels as though our freedoms are being rolled back,...
by Starlette Thomas | Aug 8, 2022 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
It’s someone’s 200th birthday! But how do you celebrate an icon, an embodiment of freedom? The answer is, “All year long.” A nine-foot statue of the trailblazer was unveiled at the start of the year. Harriet Tubman – The Journey to Freedom sculpture by Wesley Wofford...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 5, 2022 | Christian Nationalism, Opinion
Growing up in the tightknit Boynton community near the Georgia-Tennessee border, it seemed that everyone gathered at the local baseball field on the Fourth of July. All day, there was one baseball or softball game after another. Some were serious competitions — at...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 20, 2022 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
America is celebrating Juneteenth as a federal holiday for the second year. Celebrated on June 19 each year by African Americans and considered the community’s Independence Day, the day is set aside to celebrate the end of slavery in the U.S. The oldest known...