by Ken Sehested | Feb 1, 2021 | Opinion
Our local paper has a weekly section devoted to cuisine and often reviews the plentiful restaurant scene in our city that’s a magnet for tourism. Last week’s focus was captioned “No more dishes: 13 family-style meals ready for takeout.” The third paragraph in the...
by Tony C. Cartledge | Nov 25, 2020 | Opinion
It’s the day before Thanksgiving, so how can I not be thinking about gratitude? Concurrently, how can I not be thinking about those whose suffering contributed to my very fortunate place in life, even if such musing is tinged with guilt? On the surface, it’s nice to...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 2, 2020 | Opinion
Decades ago, at my home church, the pastoral prayer would be followed by the choir’s soft refrain: “Hear our prayer, O Lord, hear our prayer, O Lord; incline thine ear to us, and grant us thy peace.” Those long-buried words were resurrected from memory during early...
by Martin Saunders | May 14, 2020 | Opinion
It has taken me 40 years to accept my privilege as a white, middle-class man. I hated this idea. Hated it. Because I’ve always prided myself on something – that I am a good guy, one of the proverbial good guys in fact. I help other people. I empower women and people...
by Jonathan Langley | May 13, 2020 | Opinion
“I have the power!” is a quote not brought up often enough at the Global Leadership Summit or in the Harvard Business Review. It seems to me the definitive quote on power relations considered through a Marxist, feminist, post-colonial or Christian lens. It was, of...
