by Alyssa Aldape | Aug 26, 2022 | Opinion
I attended seminary in the hopes of reconnecting to a faith that began to crumble around me. My Christianity informed by a historically white church and denomination did not fit quite right anymore. The rigid teachings began to crack under the pressure of curiosity,...
by Kip Banks Sr. | Jun 21, 2021 | Opinion
I was blessed to attend the White House signing ceremony on June 17 for the legislation making Juneteenth a national holiday. This was truly a blessing because my ancestors were enslaved to Michael Brabamour Menard, the founder of Galveston, Texas. They were religious...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Mar 14, 2018 | Opinion
A challenging and potentially transformative command to enact an economic Sabbath is found in Deuteronomy 15:1-11. Every seven years, Hebrew creditors were to release the remaining debt of the loans given during the previous six years. Debt was the ultimate source of...
by Nick Lear | Sep 20, 2017 | Opinion
I grew up in an era when the threat of nuclear attack was real. The peace of the world existed in a tension that was known as MAD – mutually assured destruction. In other words, we would not blow up another country because we knew that they would blow us up in...
by Tim Jones | Nov 28, 2012 | Opinion
At the start of her Jubilee year, the Queen of England said to a meeting of faith leaders “the concept of a Jubilee is rooted in the Bible.” She failed to mention that a biblical jubilee has nothing to do with celebrating a monarch’s reign, but was a...
