by Amanda Hiley | Jul 13, 2020 | Opinion
“For the first time in American history, we’re not allowed to teach American history.” It was the first thing in my Facebook feed when I awoke on July 5, posted by a good friend from college. As a person who did undergraduate and graduate work in history, the...
by Jim Hopkins | Jun 26, 2020 | Opinion
The place of statues in public spaces is currently under great scrutiny. This examination includes not only statues erected to commemorate Confederate generals, soldiers and political leaders, but also those erected in honor of presidents like George Washington,...
by Jim Kelsey | Jan 24, 2019 | Opinion
We were naming a room in our church building. We already had a room named after the long-term pastor of the church, who led the congregation during what was seen by the long-tenured members as the heyday of the church. Our choosing of a name had come to the point...
by Roger Olson | Sep 24, 2018 | Opinion
One of the most quoted clichés is from philosopher George Santayana: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Another cliché is that history repeats itself, but that’s false. History does not repeat itself; people repeat it – often out of...
by Michael Middaugh | Aug 25, 2017 | Opinion
I’m from the South – Arkansas to be exact. When I was young, I never understood how the emotional and ideological divisions of the U.S. Civil War continued to cause divide. Sure, when I went off to college in Texas, my roommates ribbed me about being a...
