by Mary Alice Birdwhistell | Sep 28, 2020 | Opinion, Top Feature
I can hear helicopters circling over my city as I write these words. It’s a few hours after the attorney general’s announcement about Breonna Taylor here in Louisville. Sickness settles in my stomach as I begin to digest the news that one officer was indicted because...
by Monty Self | Sep 24, 2020 | Opinion
A whistleblower complaint was filed against immigration officials at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, according to a Sept. 14 Associated Press report. Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at the facility, asserts in the complaint that women were receiving...
by Imam Imad Enchassi | Aug 21, 2020 | Opinion
Content warning: This article shares a firsthand account of the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, Lebanon. Certain details might be difficult for some to read. The first day of the massacre, I remember looking up to the hills and on top of buildings, seeing...
by Scott Stearman | Aug 20, 2020 | Opinion
As a lifelong Baptist, I’ve been rightly appreciative of our tradition of promoting religious liberty. In my youth, at a conservative Southern Baptist Church in central Oklahoma, I was taught all people should be free to worship as they choose. It was acknowledged...
by Fred Guttman | Aug 19, 2020 | Opinion
August 22 is the International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. We all agree that throughout the centuries, far too many acts of violence have been committed in the name of religion. It seems to me the teaching of Judaism,...
