by Angela Grant | Oct 30, 2026 | Opinion
Growing up as a Southern Baptist Missionary Kid (MK) in Japan in the 1950s and 60s had its advantages. At the top of my list was hearing every kind of music and not growing up in the U.S., which, for me, would have been the Carolinas, where my parents were from. My...
by Donald E. Williams | Aug 25, 2026 | Opinion
The recent tragic death of Professor Jason Arday, formerly of the University of Cambridge, weighs heavily on my heart. Arday was the youngest Black professor in Cambridge’s history. He also faced an extraordinary level of public and media scrutiny over his...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Aug 11, 2026 | Opinion
During the early 1980s, I was a young hot Latino living in Miami, Florida. One summer, I decided to take a road trip north to visit my old stomping grounds, New York City. I jumped in my cherry red Capri and roared northward on I-95. I was a few miles away from my...
by Craig Nash | Jun 3, 2026 | News
The Rio Grande Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) has reportedly suspended the Rev. Zachary Garris, a New Mexico pastor, over what it deemed “unwholesome speech.” The charge stemmed from a pair of interactions in 2023 on the social media platform...
by Ken Sehested | May 21, 2026 | Opinion
Malcolm X’s Autobiography was the first book that scared me. Here I was, in the transition from adolescence to young adulthood, secretly abandoning my pietist-revivalist rearing in favor of the more verdant fields of liberalism, which helped for a time. Then came this...