by Meredith Holladay | May 23, 2013 | Opinion
“So, I have a friend who is critiquing ‘Duck Dynasty’ for being misogynist toward the women in the show. I don’t get it. What do you all think?” A totally normal text to receive from my dad on a Monday morning. But seriously, let’s...
by Michael Ruffin | Sep 25, 2012 | Opinion
I’m writing these words on my 54th birthday, and I’m in a reflective mood. I’m thinking about what I have learned in my five and a half decades of living. Here’s a list, in no particular order: Baseball is still the greatest sport in the world,...
by Guy Sayles | Jul 30, 2012 | Opinion
Have you ever tried a geographical cure for your problems? Just move to a new city and leave your problems in the old one. The difficulties you’ve had and the challenges you’ve faced in the past are the fault of the clueless employers and insensitive...
by Robert Parham | Jun 18, 2012 | Opinion
Everything I knew about the Church of Christ, better known pejoratively among Baptists as Campbellites, is probably wrong. What I experienced recently at a spectacular event at Nashville’s Lipscomb University was contextually prophetic, musically energizing,...
by Reggie Warren | May 29, 2012 | Opinion
Potential hypocrisy notwithstanding, here are my 10 questions for the week: No. 1. Why is it that so many political and religious ideologues describe those on the other side of the aisle as “extremist, virulent, heretical and divisive,” while the...