by John D. Pierce | May 9, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Before entering the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, a group of white nationalist Proud Boys knelt to seek divine support. “We pray you provide all of us with courage and strength to both represent you and to represent our culture as well,” voiced the one...
by Randall Balmer | Apr 26, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
The question, I confess, caught me off-balance. I was in California recently to give the Castelfranco Lecture at the University of California, Davis. During lunch before the event with a small group of colleagues, I fell into conversation with a graduate student who...
by Mitch Randall | Apr 13, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
The Oklahoma Statewide Virtual Charter School Board voted 5-0 to disapprove the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School’s application. In doing so, they rejected the Catholic church’s application to create “the first taxpayer-funded religious charter...
by Colin Harris | Mar 31, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
How might we find and choose our way on the path to the future? Two images from a recent Saturday night prompted some reflection on this question. The first was a stage production of “The Sound of Music” performed by older children and teenagers who are part of a...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 30, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
A 28-year-old assailant walked into The Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, a private elementary school on the grounds of Covenant Presbyterian Church. The assailant, Aubrey Hale, unloaded her weapons on unsuspecting children and school employees. During Hale’s...
