by William Brackney | Nov 4, 2020 | Opinion
Many of the women have been lost or simply forgotten. That’s the sad, but persistent, reality that I’ve uncovered over the last 30 years in piecing together my family’s history during the past four centuries. As chronicles have been kept, the record is more often than...
by William E. Hull | Jan 24, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Nov. 7, 2003. Hull was university professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of publication. Boundary markers are important to fundamentalists because they need enemies to energize their cause. In...
by Kathryn Freeman | Jun 15, 2016 | Opinion
I have read several stories recently about violence against girls and women with increasing alarm. Just a snapshot of the headlines: Teenager Sentenced to 25 Years for Killing A Girl Who Said No to Prom Father of former Stanford swimmer refers to sexual assault as...
by Tony Cartledge | Aug 24, 2014 | Opinion
She must have been somebody special, this woman who lived some 7,000 years ago, during what we have typically called the Middle Chalcolithic period (a fancy way of saying “during the Stone Age”). Her home was in a mudbrick village in a fertile area near...
by Claude Mariottini | May 13, 2014 | Opinion
Most scholars believe that Deuteronomy was the book of the law found during the reparations of the temple at the time Josiah was king of Judah (2 Kings 22). When the prophetess, Huldah, confirmed the book’s authenticity, Josiah enacted reforms to address the...