by Jason Coker | Aug 28, 2020 | Opinion
The pandemic acts as an accelerator for everything. If you had any anxiety before the pandemic, now you have more. If you were struggling to pay the bills before the pandemic, you are struggling even more now. It is an accelerant, and we all have been affected. Mental...
by Molly T. Marshall | Sep 29, 2017 | Opinion
Among some Christians you will often hear the aphorism: “Everything happens for a reason.” Really? How in the wake of hurricanes, internally displaced persons, floods, earthquakes and shattered infrastructures does one maintain this? It seems to infer...
by Colin Harris | May 22, 2013 | Opinion
While watching a news report Tuesday morning of the aftermath of Monday’s catastrophic tornado in Moore, Okla., my wife and I received a call that a relative completed a long battle with disease during the night. The images of a community and nation responding...
by Greg Hunt | Apr 29, 2013 | Opinion
A gunman slaughters innocents at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Bombs rip through the crowd at the Boston Marathon. A chemical plant explosion destroys homes and lives in West, Texas. Every day seems to bring news of a devastating disruption in some...
by Lauren Markoe | Sep 12, 2011 | News
(RNS) Sean Tallon was nearing the end of his probationary training as a New York City firefighter when the two hijacked planes hit the twin towers of the World Trade Center on 9/11. Tallon, 26, ran up the North Tower to save others. His family would never see him...