by Mitch Randall | Mar 25, 2021 | Opinion
The United States suffered two mass shootings, one in Atlanta, Georgia, and the other in Boulder, Colorado, during a seven-day period. With the cries of the victims and their families still echoing in our ears, the Christian church prepares to enter Holy Week in...
by Starlette Thomas | May 11, 2020 | Opinion
Justice isn’t blind; the justice system willingly turns a blind eye. Ahmaud Arbery was shot and killed in Brunswick, Georgia, on February 23, but Tom Durden, the district attorney didn’t request a formal investigation until May 5. On May 6, the Kingsland Office began...
by Cory Jones | May 8, 2020 | Opinion
“A Time to Kill” was released in 1996. The movie depicts a black man, Carl Lee Hailey, who struggles with the horrific rape of his 10-year-old daughter Tonya by two white men in Mississippi. In response, he kills the white men for their crimes to ensure they would not...
by Ken Sehested | Nov 15, 2019 | Opinion
Another school shooting. Sirens wail. First responders race. Video shows the now-common recessional, with rifled law enforcement escorting a parade of students from school grounds. So oft repeated it’s now a kind of ritual liturgy. Then a repeat of the predictable...
by Jen Zamzow | Aug 12, 2019 | Opinion
The cycle has become sadly predictable. Mass shooting, followed by offers of thoughts and prayers and little else. Many have criticized this “thoughts and prayers” response as being an empty gesture – an attempt to look good without actually doing the hard work of...
