by Alyssa Aldape | Feb 28, 2022 | Opinion
Do you remember the youth room of your childhood church? Mine was on the second floor and back corner of Manor Baptist Church. But before the sixth grade, my family left the church I grew up in and moved to a predominantly white church in the suburbs of San Antonio....
by Joy Moton | Mar 25, 2021 | Opinion
This summer, the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other unarmed Black individuals at the hands of police officers confronted the nation with the undeniable truth about systemic racism. It was no surprise that the news reports, videos and...
by Christina Embree | Feb 3, 2020 | Opinion
A dialogue about “a systemic sin” in the church grabbed my attention recently. The followed quote from John Wesley’s “On Instructing Children, Minutes of Several Conversations” was posted to Facebook by a senior pastor I know: “John Wesley on the pastor’s... by Greg Mamula | Feb 22, 2016 | Opinion
I have heard pediatricians spend as much of their time reassuring nervous parents as they do treating the sick child. The same can be said about parents of students who worry over their children’s choices, salvation, church attendance, Bible knowledge and... by Trey Lyon | Aug 4, 2014 | Opinion
I spoke at a youth retreat recently, during which students acted out skits they made up. Again and again, students walked up and impersonated a caricature of one of their former youth ministers. “Do you see what’s going on here?” my friend asked,...
