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…
Opinion
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…
Angels of Southeast Asia
SEREMBAN, MALAYSIA — “Hospitality” sometimes includes a trip to the hospital. I learned that much during my visit to this Southeast Asian city, about an…
Life-changing exchanges
HITACHI, JAPAN — I was 12 years old when I met Mariko, a beautiful young woman and exchange student from Ibaraki Christian University. She stood…
Sunday in Ukraine
IRPIN, UKRAINE — Walls of pure white, adorned with a single, thin wooden cross, surround a group of 35 worshipers on Sunday morning. The immaculate…
Polishing the Pulpit puts the focus on preaching
BRANSON, MO. — I was 6 when my family packed a U-Haul truck and moved to Louisiana so my father, Bob, could attend the White’s…
‘In violent times, you shouldn’t have to sell your soul’
I spent Saturday afternoon driving my family home from my in-laws’ in Altus, Okla. We plugged in my phone and queued up the greatest hits…
What do we do now?
In the wake of the July 13 attack on former President Donald Trump, some of us remember exactly where we were when President John F.…
