by Zechariah M. Mickel | Jul 6, 2020 | Faith Freedom 2020, Opinion
We all watched George Floyd die. We listened to him crying out for nine minutes for breath and for his mother as a white police officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck. The video was nothing short of a national trauma. Cities, suburbs and even small towns erupted...
by Samuel Caraballo | Jun 30, 2020 | Opinion
The horrific death of George Floyd on May 25 preceded one of the most important events in the Christian liturgical calendar. Pentecost commemorates the beginning of God’s dealings with the church through the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on 120 individuals...
by David Emmanuel Goatley | Jun 24, 2020 | Opinion
The pandemic and protests of 2020 have stirred reflection on and conversation about the ramifications of racism in the United States. This is not the only result, but it does seem more people may be acknowledging the debilitating and deadly consequences of racism that...
by Bruce T. Gourley | Jun 19, 2020 | Faith Freedom 2020, Opinion
The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed more than two-and-a-half years earlier. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant more than two months before, ending the treasonous Confederate States of America – an imagined white...
by Wendell Griffen | Jun 17, 2020 | Opinion
I have lost count of the number of times I’ve heard white journalists, politicians and self-described evangelical Christians express sorrow and make gestures of sympathy about the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. I have lost count of the...
