by Wendell Griffen | Aug 12, 2020 | Opinion
Children, teachers and school staff need our prayers. I am joining many others in praying for those who are being ordered to return to school buildings and classrooms in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. However, we should also pray for the adults who knowingly...
by Wendell Griffen | Jul 29, 2020 | Opinion
Slavery “was the necessary evil upon which the union was built,” U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton said in a recent interview. The July 26, 2020, issue of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper contains an article based on that interview written by that paper’s Washington, DC,...
by Wendell Griffen | Jul 21, 2020 | Opinion
U.S. Congressman John Lewis did not serve as pastor of a church. He did not lead a denomination. He was not president of a college or university. As far as I can tell, he never worked in the private sector. Instead, John Lewis spent his entire adult life working,...
by Wendell Griffen | Jul 13, 2020 | Opinion
The board of regents of Baylor University recently announced the formation of a 26-person Commission on Historic Campus Representations. According to a July 6, 2020, press release, the commission “will provide guidance on presenting Baylor’s complete history as the...
by Wendell Griffen | Jun 17, 2020 | Opinion
I have lost count of the number of times I’ve heard white journalists, politicians and self-described evangelical Christians express sorrow and make gestures of sympathy about the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery. I have lost count of the...
