by Timothy J. Bonner | Dec 28, 2020 | Opinion
Fear grips our souls at times. Yet, we most often keep this shaking-in-my-boots emotional state below the surface. Not that everything on the surface is calm in the U.S. right now. There is much rancor among us around every election season, and it’s more intense this...
by Amanda Hiley | Jul 14, 2020 | Opinion
A friend’s Facebook post lamenting we no longer teach “American history” grabbed my attention. It was July 5 and it served as an anti-intellectual gut punch. I’ve done too much study in history and too much work on social change in the South to miss that the...
by Amanda Hiley | Jul 13, 2020 | Opinion
“For the first time in American history, we’re not allowed to teach American history.” It was the first thing in my Facebook feed when I awoke on July 5, posted by a good friend from college. As a person who did undergraduate and graduate work in history, the... by Guy Sayles | Jul 29, 2016 | Opinion
An enduring symbol of medical practice is the physicians’ caduceus – it’s a winged staff, with two serpents twined around it. Robertson Davies reminded me that the Greek myth of Hermes is this symbol’s origin. Davies explained in his book,... by Larry Eubanks | Aug 4, 2015 | Opinion
It’s maddening when a person answers a question with another question. A time or two is all right, but it’s frustrating when they do it all the time. Add this to the reasons that Jesus can be quite frustrating. In his book, “Jesus Is the...