by Chuck Poole | Dec 5, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
On a hot summer Sunday in August of 2023, the Ninth Sunday after Pentecost in the sacred season known as Ordinary Time, I was blessed to visit both Rosa Parks’ Montgomery church, St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Montgomery...
by Chuck Poole | Aug 4, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
“There is no such thing as non-political Christianity.” The first time I stumbled across those words from Richard Rohr, they landed on my ears at an odd and awkward angle. Having spent a 45-year pastoral career trying to “keep politics out of the church,” I did not...
by Aaron Weaver | Jul 21, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
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by Wendell Griffen | Apr 28, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
Harry Belafonte died on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at the full age of 96 years in his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, in New York City, reportedly (according to his longtime spokesperson, Ken Sunshine) due to congestive heart failure. As befitting someone of...
by George E. Oliver | Mar 16, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott are taking the fight to the “World of Woke.” They are seeking to eliminate programs and personnel previously engaged in diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, which has sparked a lot of understandable...