by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jul 11, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
Alarm rings at 5 a.m. Wash face, stuff backpack, stumble out the door of my hostel by 5:30 am and try to find where I can have café con leche. Walk three miles in the morning chill— sometimes in the 40s, sometimes in the 50s. Stop for breakfast, usually a Spanish...
by Starlette Thomas | Jul 8, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Abolitionist Harriet Tubman is in Texas. Since 2020, she’s been traveling and spreading her message of bodily autonomy, innate freedom and self-emancipation through Wesley Wofford’s “Journey to Freedom” sculpture. That people still gather around her is the sweetest...
by Randall Balmer | Feb 9, 2023 | Opinion
America enters its high holy days this week: the run-up to Super Bowl Sunday. When thousands of spectators and millions of viewers witness the Super Bowl kickoff on Sunday, they will be participating in a ritual that has become every bit as entrenched in American life...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 22, 2021 | Opinion
I’ve been thinking about an ancient desert party that was like Burning Man, except not – the only similarity is that both involved a large gathering in a desert setting. Both involve a lot of sweaty and smelly people, but the ancients bathed much more often while...
by Katie Callaway | Nov 18, 2020 | Opinion
A pilgrimage has been defined as a “journey, often into an unknown or foreign place, where a person goes in search of new or expanded meaning about their self, others, nature or a higher good through the experience.” What began as a way to get some different scenery...
