by Clark Frailey | Aug 18, 2022 | Opinion
A former Methodist minister turned Baptist pastor named Evan Dhu Cameron was the first state superintendent in the newly formed state of Oklahoma. In 1908, he wrote: “It is true that our public-school system is ‘the spring from whence all our liberties flow,’ and...
by Mitch Randall | Jul 8, 2021 | Opinion
The treatment surrounding First Nations and Native Americans over the last 200 years has attracted renewed interest. Canada has located nearly 1,000 unmarked Indigenous graves near residential schools, and the Biden administration has announced an investigation into...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 1, 2021 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
Story. When I was a child, we couldn’t say the word “lie.” It was a bad word, comparable to cussing. Three letters, it was a big word that was only spoken at a certain age, as an adult and a rite of passage. Children also couldn’t call an adult a liar or say that an...
by Chris Moore | Jun 26, 2020 | Opinion
Tulsa, Oklahoma, played host last weekend to the confluence of the first mass gathering during a still quite active pandemic, and the latest example of a much bigger pandemic – the virus called racism, which has infected this nation since its inception. Lots of us saw...
by Imam Imad Enchassi | Apr 17, 2020 | Opinion
On April 19, 1995, the morning of the Oklahoma City Murrah Building bombing, a friend of mine, Ibrahim Ahmad, was leaving to the airport to visit his family in Jordan. The plan was for him to visit his family in Jordan while his wife traveled to visit her family in...
