by Tyler Tankersley | Apr 13, 2026 | Opinion
A few months ago, I woke before dawn and drove into the mountains, chasing a small, fleeting miracle. The trailhead for the Daffodil Flats hike sits along the rim of the Linville Gorge, sometimes called the Grand Canyon of the East. It is a place that feels untamed...
by Tyler Tankersley | Feb 6, 2026 | Opinion
When Eugene Peterson was serving as a pastor in New York City, the church’s janitor was a man named Willi Ossa. Willi carried a deep suspicion of churches and Christians. A German by birth, he had watched his childhood pastor become an ardent Nazi and witnessed...
by Tyler Tankersley | Jul 1, 2025 | Opinion
Missouri may have one of the strangest state nicknames. Legend has it that in 1899, a Democratic congressman (a species that now borders on extinction) named William Duncan Vandiver said, “I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats,...
