by Lilly Hawkins | Sep 13, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
My childhood was spent in Sunday school classrooms on the second floor of an annex. Off the side of the church, above the parish hall, the annex held a hallway that on Sundays became full of life. Every child from first to fifth grade was seated in their classroom...
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...