Opening Blind Eyes to Reclaim Our World

Opening Blind Eyes to Reclaim Our World

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...
Profiles in Goodwill: Joe Phelps

Profiles in Goodwill: Joe Phelps

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 –...

After Boston Tragedy, We Must Be Light in Darkness

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...

What Basketball Teaches Us About the Common Good

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...