by Angela Grant | Apr 7, 2022 | Opinion
Everything I knew about the Rwandan genocide I learned from the 2004 movie “Hotel Rwanda.” That is, until, following graduate school, my favorite professor let me audit one more class. What I learned was horrifying and, for a Christian who knew practically nothing...
by Jim Kelsey | Mar 12, 2020 | Opinion
I felt I was being cheated, and then the service manager mocked me. I had taken my car in because the check engine light was on; it was running fine when I took it in. I agreed to pay $65 for a diagnostic test. After two hours, they told me they could not find a...
by Eddy Ruble | Apr 8, 2019 | Opinion
Genocide. The word immediately conjures up horrific scenes of the darkest hours of human history. Do we, as the church, hold these same dark images in our minds when we hear the word genocide? The Holocaust was the most systematic genocide in history. Beginning with...
by Gordon King | Mar 19, 2018 | Opinion
We will observe the 24th anniversary of the Rwanda Tutsi genocide in April. Romeo Dallaire, commander of the United Nations forces in Rwanda, wrote a book titled “Shake Hands with the Devil.” The devil, for Dallaire, was embodied in the person of Gen....
by Jim Kelsey | Mar 16, 2018 | Opinion
We learned it as children: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” I assume it is to be a comfort to children when someone speaks unkind words to them. It occurs to me that it also could be a taunt that dares actual physical...
