Every year I’ve been on Facebook — for nearly 20 years — I’ve posted the same message on September 11: Every year on this day, I wake up remembering the clear blue sky. It was a perfect September day in...
For much of my life, I did not fully grasp the depth of my mother’s anxiety regarding my journey until I witnessed the experiences of those who came after me. I never truly understood the scope of her concern each…
Drive into Williamsburg, Va., from the west and you will see it before you see the church. A rainbow-striped banner. Designed by a pastor who cannot fully explain why he made it, only that it needed to say something true…
The death of Sen. Lindsey Graham closes a remarkable chapter in American political history. For more than 20 years, Graham was one of the most influential voices in Washington. He was a military veteran, a respected member of the Senate,…
There are occasions when one is faced with the difficult decision of being quiet or being blunt. For me, Sunday, July 12, was one of those days. I’ve never been one to sugarcoat. I’m just not wired for superficial niceties…
One of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s final public appearances was at a Baptist church in his home state of South Carolina. On Saturday, July 4, Graham appeared at First Baptist Church of Columbia, S.C.., for the Southern Baptist congregation’s “Carolina…
Last Sunday, July 5, the small Hispanic church I attend was still decked out for the Fourth of July. When I say “decked out,” I mean red, white and blue everywhere, even the flowers. The American flag was on the…
Newly elected Southern Baptist Convention President Willy Rice has characterized the SBC’s clergy sex abuse crisis as a “hoax” and a “snipe hunt.” Talk like that helped get Rice elected. Apparently, it was the message many Southern Baptists wanted to…
Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations…
Nine years ago, I had nine strokes within the course of a few hours. Nine blood clots to both hemispheres of my brain. My recovery was tough, and in those early months and years of trying to find my new…
Lately as an amateur guitarist/professional theologian, I’ve been getting into the music of Larkin Poe, a Grammy Award-winning blues rock band led by guitar-playing sisters Rebecca and Megan Lovell from rural Northwest Georgia who named their band after their great-great-great-great…
Both a Democratic Socialist and a Republican ministry leader who worked with James Dobson will be on Colorado’s ballot this November. But primary voters rejected candidates affiliated with Ryan Dobson and health-and-wealth preacher Andrew Wommack in last week’s state primaries….
Back then it was Beverly LaHaye and Phylis Schlafly. Now it’s Alex Clark and Allie Beth Stuckey. To be a female conservative Christian leader is to navigate the contradictions in making careers of saying women shouldn’t have careers but “should…
