by Colin Harris | Sep 15, 2021 | Opinion
A powerful moment of remembering took place across the U.S. last weekend. The 20th anniversary of the attacks on 9/11 occurred in the midst of unprecedented challenges on many fronts that consume mind, heart and will, making constructive and cooperative progress...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Aug 27, 2021 | News
A slim majority (53%) of U.S. adults say it is good to have increased attention on the nation’s history of slavery and racism, according to an Aug. 12 Pew Research Center report. Of this majority, 30% described this as “very good” and 23% as “somewhat good.” By...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 17, 2021 | Opinion
My public school and religious education were taught through the lens of “American exceptionalism.” We were not only blessed, we learned; we were also special, which translated to privileged. I don’t recall learning about the Doctrine of Discovery and Manifest Destiny...
by Kathy Manis Findley | Jul 28, 2021 | Opinion
History will tell stories about how this society, in this time, failed to treat every person as a person of worth. History might also tell of the ways people of faith failed to treat persons as persons of sacred worth. It’s a matter of respecting all persons, caring...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 13, 2021 | Opinion
To borrow a good line from Paul, writing to early Christians who struggled with their identity and relationships, “Don’t think of yourself more highly than you should” (Romans 12:3). Modern psychologists did not invent the idea of decentering oneself; it is the...
