by Jack Moline | Jan 19, 2023 | Opinion
Carol Davidson was my mother-in-law. She was born and raised in the badlands of New York City and managed to maintain her accent, her elbows and her pithy observations despite being exiled to Virginia as a young bride. Carol was a mere slip of a thing, as much a...
by Kevin Heifner | May 23, 2022 | Opinion
Sitting on my zero-turn lawnmower is where I do my best thinking. What was on my mind after finishing my latest grass cutting were several comments that I’ve left publicly over the past few years that, in retrospect, would have been better left unsaid. Assessing my...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 23, 2022 | Opinion
Words can have amazing power, so long as we grant it to them. In a story familiar by now, a popular Catholic priest in Arizona had to resign when someone realized he had been using one wrong word when performing baptisms. Andres Arango had served three different...
by Starlette Thomas | Dec 27, 2021 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
“The sky is falling!” Plan for when worst comes to worst. The world has been ending for nearly my entire life. What keeps me from living as if my hair is on fire or finding shelter under a rock are words. Good faith words have moved me to a deeper sense of human being...
by Starlette Thomas | Apr 5, 2021 | Opinion, The Raceless Gospel Initiative
George Floyd. Derek Chauvin. Breonna Taylor. Brett Hankison. Donald Trump. Joseph Biden. Colin Kaepernick. Cathy Park Hong. Amanda Gorman. We say their names and call forth their presence, evoke a memory or produce a feeling within us. We clinch our teeth or shout...
