by Starlette Thomas | Jun 1, 2021 | Opinion
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...
by Mitch Randall | Apr 16, 2020 | Opinion
On April 19, 1995, I was a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. As I walked into my midmorning class that day, a television was broadcasting a scene that confounded me. Breaking news indicated an explosion in downtown Oklahoma...
by Jakob Topper | Oct 4, 2019 | Opinion
We would be hard pressed to find a piece of literature that has had a more painful effect on the lives of Americans than Paul’s letter to Philemon. Because the letter’s context is the sending of an escaped slave back to his Christian master by the Apostle Paul, it...
