by Mitch Randall | Apr 4, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
After 18 years in the same house, Missy and I are moving across town. Now that both of our boys have left home, we’ve decided to downsize. As we prepare for the move, we’ve unpacked and repacked two decades of boxes filled with remarkable memories. With each...
by Justin Cox | Mar 26, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
The more we keep from changing, the more we stifle ourselves to stay the same. I feel this deep in my bones most weeks as I attempt to “run” a church. Now, I know I don’t actually “run” it. I’m downright grateful for that. I am glad all final...
by Craig Nash | Jan 10, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
A local church in my town once had a BINGO card with squares for the references and speech patterns their pastor often used in her sermons. It included, among other items, authors (Wendell Berry, Frederich Buechner, Anne Lamott), stories from her childhood in Kentucky...
by Chuck Poole | Dec 5, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
On a hot summer Sunday in August of 2023, the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost in the sacred season known as Ordinary Time, I was blessed to visit both Rosa Parks’ Montgomery church, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Montgomery...
by Zach Dawes Jr | May 22, 2023 | Feature-, News
U.S. teens and adults have a positive perception of Jesus, according to a Barna Group report published May 17. Nearly three quarters (71%) of all respondents say they have a positive opinion of Jesus, compared to 63% who hold a positive view of the Bible and 57% who...
