by Starlette Thomas | Apr 5, 2021 | Opinion
George Floyd. Derek Chauvin. Breonna Taylor. Brett Hankison. Donald Trump. Joseph Biden. Colin Kaepernick. Cathy Park Hong. Amanda Gorman. We say their names and call forth their presence, evoke a memory or produce a feeling within us. We clinch our teeth or shout...
by Lacey Fitch-Ondracek | Mar 22, 2021 | Opinion
Words have power; they can carry freedom or they can carry weight. We often forget that power also resides in names. Our names are what we closely identify with in places of comfort and places of estrangement. Knowing someone’s name can allow them to feel safe and...
by David Wilkerson | Mar 8, 2021 | Opinion
I was in college when email proliferated to the point where largely technologically unaware adolescents had no choice but to adopt it. No stamp and envelope were required, and I was able to share my thoughts with someone who could read it whenever they wanted. It was...
by David Cassady and Ray Higgins | Feb 22, 2021 | Opinion
Two Baptist pastors in Texas called Vice President Kamala Harris “Jezebel” in recent weeks. The pastors are Steve Swofford of First Baptist Church in Rockwall, and Tom Buck of First Baptist Church in Lindale. According to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia at...
by Mitch Carnell | Feb 22, 2021 | Opinion
My friend said to his mother, “Don’t worry about it. They are just words.” In fact, she was right to worry. She was concerned about the wording changes in her church’s by-laws. Words that reeked of exclusion and fear. She had prayed fervently that the ugliness that...
