This election, can we tame our digital tongues?
Every time I open Facebook or Instagram, my stomach immediately flips, and I feel sick. Why? Because it’s an election year, and many of my…
Reviews
Review: Becoming Better Grownups
Right around the halfway point of our world-wide extended Spring Break, I turned 40 years old. In our culture this is still considered a milestone,…
Book offers surprisingly suspenseful church history
Believe it or not, the Land Run of 1889, celebrated and recreated yearly by school children across Oklahoma, had a negative impact on Churches of…
Racial reconciliation: Now what?
I'm a White woman. I have never worried about looking suspicious as I walk home from a convenience store, like Trayvon Martin. I don’t worry…
Missionary models in prison how we should live in quarantine
I read “God’s Hostage: A True Story of Persecution, Imprisonment and Perseverance” during a unique time in our history. As a pandemic looms and we shelter…
The divided legacy of Alexander Campbell
When Alexander Campbell died in 1866, he left his legacy in a divided condition. His six living grandchildren from his first wife, Margaret, challenged Alexander’s…
Review: ‘Mrs. America’ series more drama than truth
Phyllis Schlafly, the founder of the modern-day conservative women’s movement in America, was the antithesis of 20th-century feminism. She came out of nowhere, seemingly, to…
Review: ‘Mrs. America’ draws a faint line from women in Churches of Christ to Equal Rights Amendment fray
Had it not been for my culturally attuned college senior of a daughter, I likely never would have found the made-for-television miniseries “Mrs. America.” Had…
Review: Freed-Hardeman history is more than a highlight reel
‘It seems like God wants Freed- Hardeman to be here.” With those words, David Shannon began his tenure as Freed-Hardeman University’s current president. Greg Massey’s…
Virtual visit: Kent County Church of Christ, Rhode Island
My family and I are spending our quarantine worshiping with our home congregation, the Memorial Road Church of Christ, from home via livestream. When I…
