Kingdom over country
2024 marks the first time Carlos Estrada, minister for the Spanish-speaking cohort of Chicago’s Northwest Church of Christ, gets to cast his vote as an…
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Thinking about politics
Recent political events show that the 2024 election season will be anything but boring. Social media is flooded with political opinions, and church conversations often…
Voices only: Sacred Selections
OKLAHOMA CITY — If you love classic hymns, you're in for a treat! Every summer my home congregation, the Memorial Road Church of Christ, hosts…
Reporting on controversies
I know a little about Churches of Christ. I was two weeks old when I first attended. Except for the crazy COVID-19 period, I’ve spent…
Culture wars turn classrooms into battlefields
OKLAHOMA CITY — Before I got my start in religion reporting 25 years ago, I covered education news for The Oklahoman, the daily newspaper in Oklahoma…
Embracing the zeroes: When age has its privileges — and when it doesn’t
Americans devote a lot of air and ink to debating the age of presidential candidates — and how old is too old. Approximate octogenarians dominate…
Is this church plant innovative or unscriptural?
HERMITAGE, TENN. — The New Garden Church is not a traditional Church of Christ. Then again, it's not trying to be. The church plant — which…
Why a Tennessee congregation sold its building and moved into a school
HERMITAGE, TENN. — The New Garden Church is not a traditional Church of Christ. Then again, it's not trying to be. The church plant — which…
Culture warrior, MAGA champion, Church of Christ member: Who is Ryan Walters?
OKLAHOMA CITY — Ryan Walters wasn’t always known as Oklahoma’s culture-warrior-in-chief. Neither was the 39-year-old Republican always a high-profile MAGA champion, denouncing liberal indoctrination; illegal…
‘The home gave me my faith’
WICHITA, KAN. — At just 5 years old, Shirley Baldridge Porch understood hardship. She spent the first years of her life playing on a dirt floor. …
