by Joe Phelps | Jul 31, 2020 | Opinion
It is someone else’s problem, not ours. That’s how many of us white people have felt if we haven’t seen racial injustice up close and personal. It hasn’t been completely real or relevant. No longer. I live in Louisville, Kentucky, where in May, amid news of Ahmaud...
by Joe Phelps | Feb 7, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Jan. 19, 2011. At the time of publication, Phelps was pastor of Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Last week, a man walked hesitantly into the church office asking for help to get to Cincinnati. He was just...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Feb 20, 2019 | News
Joe Phelps is the new justice coordinator for Earth and Spirit Center and co-chair of Empower West, a Louisville, Kentucky, black-white clergy coalition. He served previously as pastor of Highland Baptist Church in Louisville. Where did you grow up? In the Midwest –...
by Joe Phelps | Apr 17, 2013 | Opinion
The routine of Monday’s workday was blown apart by incoming reports of bombs exploding at the finish line of the iconic Boston Marathon. Someone’s, or some group’s, hatred of the way life’s race is being run motivated them to detonate hidden...
by Joe Phelps | Mar 1, 2013 | Opinion
Amid all the game playing in Washington and in Frankfort, Ky., perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from Kentucky’s other religion: basketball. Recently, the Courier-Journal sports section questioned whether University of Louisville center Gorgui Dieng is...
