by Starlette Thomas | Dec 27, 2022 | Opinion
The Christmas season officially began with Mariah Carey’s “All I want for Christmas is you” blaring in every department store and supermarket. Now that Jesus is here, we’ll need to change our tune and address the emotional and physical labor of the holiday, which is...
by Alyssa Aldape | May 13, 2021 | Opinion
When I was little, I was taught Jesus loved me because the Bible told me so. Little ones to him belong. I was the weak one; he was the strong one. When I was baptized, I was taught that I now lived a life to be modeled by his, dying to self and beginning a new life....
by Skye Perryman | May 12, 2021 | Opinion
Mother’s Day has meant different things to me over the years. This includes celebrating my own mother and mother figures, participating in special services at church, being a support to friends who have lost their moms or children or who long to be mothers, and...
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...
