The Trump administration wants to change a Clinton-era program designed to help working single mothers afford child care to instead help married, stay-at-home parents offset the cost of staying home. The planned shift is part of the administration’s goal of...
When my book, Lettering from A to Z, was published in October 2020, its purpose was to provide information to explain, teach and encourage creatives. I still remember, in awe, that a 294-page book could even make it through all…
The Trump administration wants to change a Clinton-era program designed to help working single mothers afford child care to instead help married, stay-at-home parents offset the cost of staying home. The planned shift is part of the administration’s goal of…
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for the first in his two-term administration, withdrew the death warrant of an inmate who had been scheduled to die by lethal injection earlier this month. Groups such as Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty,…
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz isn’t up for reelection this year, but I wish he were. I’d love to see him get Talaricoed. The soon-to-be senior senator from Texas has a way of saying the nastiest things. And this week he…
My weekend started with a follow suggestion for Mark Driscoll. I was as shocked as you. For people in and around churches in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Driscoll was a thing. He was part of the young, restless…
As I neared the end of my pregnancy, I took the same drive on a giant highway I do almost every day to get to work. Today, in a new way, I noticed the grackles and doves and other birds…
You know the Saturday I mean. Maybe yours comes every week. Maybe you keep putting it off until the laundry basket makes the decision for you. But eventually the weekend has to wait because there are clothes to wash, a…
When I was a kid, playing sports was a big deal for me and those in my family. I played soccer from elementary through high school, even taking my team to a championship while living in Alaska when I was…
Civil rights and voting rights organizations have sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to stop its “secretive and unlawful effort” to gather and use sensitive voter information to help sabotage next month’s midterm elections. “DHS claims that it needs…
An Oklahoma education board rejected the application of a Jewish K-12 school despite a recent federal decision enabling the project to continue. The Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board voted 4-3 against Ben Gamla Jewish Charter School. The tally was one…
People who identify as Christians but give money to Mainline churches and organizations aren’t actually Christians because they’re giving money to organizations that support LGBTQ people and abortion. So says the conservative commentator Megan Basham, who calls herself a “Christian…
Why is a Baptist-affiliated news service spending so much time writing about the Methodists these days? The answer is simple: Because the legal battle between Highland Park United Methodist Church and The United Methodist Church has implications for all churches…
