by Colin Harris | Sep 15, 2021 | Opinion
A powerful moment of remembering took place across the U.S. last weekend. The 20th anniversary of the attacks on 9/11 occurred in the midst of unprecedented challenges on many fronts that consume mind, heart and will, making constructive and cooperative progress...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 7, 2021 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
I don’t want to remember. For all of the stories I tell, there are those that I would rather not repeat. But the memories are in my body. They move with me, packing up and travel along whether the occasion calls for it or not. They show up no matter how discreet....
by Mitch Carnell | Nov 25, 2020 | Opinion
A friend shared recently about how his grandfather and his pregnant wife escaped from Russia before the First World War. I asked him if he had written the story. Writing or recording your story is so important because stories connect us. If your story is not preserved...
by Preston Clegg | Jun 2, 2020 | Opinion
Becoming a community of peacemakers is the calling of Christians worldwide. Second Baptist Church of Little Rock, Arkansas, where I serve as pastor, has made this a primal impulse of our life together over the past seven years. But occasionally, we must stop and...
by Laura Landgraf | Nov 12, 2019 | Opinion
A lovely friend of mine received difficult health news not long ago. As she struggled with her new realities, she wrote that she hoped to discover “the grace of innocence and the lack of resentment at being denied what I had before.” Finding joy in each moment would...
