by Ali Khan | Dec 17, 2025 | Opinion
For the past 30 years, the Islamic Academy of Alabama (IAA) has been nestled in a leafy neighborhood near the Birmingham Zoo, about a ten-minute drive from my first home. It serves more than 200 students and has an almost 100 percent university-enrollment rate among...
by Michael Chancellor | Nov 24, 2025 | Opinion
I cannot understand why this administration and so many Republican politicians have declared war on transgender people in our midst. There are countless problems with this aggressive campaign, but one especially disturbing example surfaced recently when...
by Delaney Metcalf | Nov 19, 2025 | Opinion
The tables are set, and you’re sitting at one. Every day, in every room, we reenact the same quiet sorting: who belongs, who doesn’t, who gets welcomed, who gets ignored. It’s not just middle school lunchrooms anymore. It’s our churches, our neighborhoods, our social...
by Jason Edwards | Jun 4, 2025 | Opinion
A few years ago, when my son was still small, he looked up at his mom and asked, “Will I ever be a normal boy?” It’s the kind of question a child asks when the world has already started to draw its lines. Jackson is older now—a high school sophomore with strong...
by Starlette Thomas | May 8, 2025 | News
When asked if the Catholic Church should “stick to its traditional teachings, even if it means the church gets smaller” or “be more inclusive, even if it means changing some of its teachings,” a majority of U.S. Catholics polled chose the latter of the contrasting...
