by Jim Hopkins | Jun 26, 2020 | Opinion
The place of statues in public spaces is currently under great scrutiny. This examination includes not only statues erected to commemorate Confederate generals, soldiers and political leaders, but also those erected in honor of presidents like George Washington,...
by Ken Sehested | Jun 26, 2020 | Opinion
I will likely be considered antiquated, maybe maniacal, even apoplectic when I say we in the United States (with derivative outbreaks elsewhere) are under the spell of the demonic. Of those who worship death’s malicious craving, specifically the sacrificial scalp of...
by Justin Bishop | Jun 3, 2020 | Opinion
Silence is complicit. I’m sure I’ll get something wrong here. However, if I wait until I’ve figured out exactly what to say, I probably won’t say anything, and that’s part of the problem. We see the pain and the chaos, and we say a prayer and try to move on with our...
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 John D. Pierce | May 15, 2020 | Opinion
Rebellion never came easy for me, so I lived it vicariously through music by Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson. I wore a groove through a 45-rpm record of “Mama Tried,” even though I turned 21 approaching college graduation, not “in prison doing life...
