by Michael Chancellor | Dec 10, 2025 | Opinion
Content Warning: The following contains multiple mentions of sexual assault. Justice Horn, a successful wrestler at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, recently wrote about his experience of being sexually assaulted. Horn, an openly gay man from the...
by Michael Chancellor | Nov 24, 2025 | Opinion
I cannot understand why this administration and so many Republican politicians have declared war on transgender people in our midst. There are countless problems with this aggressive campaign, but one especially disturbing example surfaced recently when...
by Michael Chancellor | Nov 5, 2025 | Opinion
Every veteran I saw as a therapist was a tribute to my dad, who quietly served as a Marine during some of the fiercest fighting in the South Pacific in World War II. I lost count of how many veterans came through my practice, but each was a hero whose service they...
by Michael Chancellor | Oct 9, 2025 | Opinion
In 2022, Charlie Kirk, the CEO and co-founder of Turning Point USA, declared, “I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new-age term that…does a lot of damage.” I wasn’t aware of this quote until after Kirk’s assassination. The...
by Michael Chancellor | Oct 3, 2025 | Opinion
While visiting our son Joseph in Thailand during his two-year assignment as a Journeyman for the International Mission Board, he remarked that in his host country, “traffic laws are mere suggestions.” I laughed and have remembered that observation. Today, I feel as...
