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May 2026

May 23, 2026

Speaking and hearing anew at Pentecost

It was while she sat in worship on a Pentecost Sunday in the 1950s that...

December 2025

December 31, 2025

60 Years of A Charlie Brown Christmas

December 1965. It was 60 years ago, in December 1965, that Charles Schulz’ classic, A...

May 2025

May 27, 2025

Memphis, Mercy, and the Men We Remember

The Hand That Wasn’t There... Just after Tyre Nichols died in Memphis in 2023, I...

March 2025

March 02, 2025

The Cost of Looking Away: Who Is My Neighbor?

On Mercy... One hour, twenty minutes. That's how long Hugo Tale-Yax lay on a sidewalk...

February 2025

February 10, 2025

The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few…

Prudence Crandall is recognized as the State Heroine of Connecticut. As a young teacher,...

December 2024

December 16, 2024

Fighting for My Daughter’s Health in a Broken System

When Ear Infections Become a Battleground When our older daughter was about six months old,...

April 2024

April 14, 2024

An unexpected gift of family…

26When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing beside her,...

December 2023

December 04, 2023

Twelve Inspiring Films to Watch in December

It's that time of year...long, chilly December evenings seem to be meant for movie watching....

November 2023

November 18, 2023

The Scars of Conflict…

Genesis 25:7-10: 7 This is the length of Abraham’s life, one hundred and seventy-five years. 8Abraham...

September 2023

September 07, 2023

A September to Remember: Hearing Shared History from the Voices of the Disenfranchised

On September 4, 1957, Black students who would later be called the Little Rock Nine...

August 2023

August 11, 2023

From fear and hatred…to love: Remembering Khalid Jabara

Fear drove the Jabara family from Lebanon. Khalid, Rami and Victoria Jabara’s parents feared...

July 2023

July 01, 2023

Checking the box…

Back in the day, choosing not to identify oneself by race in applying to...

June 2023

June 30, 2023

Poverty, by America: Is it possible to change our nation’s conversation on poverty?

What caused the fire? When scholar and author Matthew Desmond spoke in Memphis in May...

June 15, 2023

Acid in the Pool: The Photo That Shook a Nation Awake

A Look Back at 1964, the Passage of the Civil Rights Act, and St. Augustine,...

May 2023

May 13, 2023

Frances Perkins: The Intersection of Faith and Policy

Frances Perkins was having lunch in New York on March 25, 1911, when the...

May 08, 2023

Carolyn Bryant Donham, Emmett Till, and a Nation’s Uncomfortable History with Lynching

Carolyn Bryant (now Donham), whose accusations against Emmett Till...

April 2023

April 07, 2023

At Easter, all Christians are witnesses!

Lester Tanner wasn’t trying to make a name for himself when he shared the...

March 2023

March 21, 2023

Remembering South Africa’s Sharpeville Massacre: Peaceful protests and cries for justice

On March 21, 1960, a group of South African men from the township of...

March 15, 2023

Lessons from the life of Jimmy Carter

Several years ago, I heard an address given by a leader nearing retirement; he...

March 03, 2023

What was the Freedmen’s Bureau, and did it succeed?

On March 3, 1865, the eve of President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration, Lincoln...

February 2023

February 18, 2023

A Voice for Freedom: Remembering Frederick Douglass

I think of my great-grandfather when I think of Frederick Douglass. I’m told that my...

February 17, 2023

The “Father of Modern Gynecology,” the “Mothers of Gynecology,” and the Challenge of History

In 2017, I stumbled across an article about a statue of a physician named J....

February 11, 2023

A Page from Memphis History: The 1968 Sanitation Workers Strike, and a Faith Story…

Thursday, February 1, 1968 was a cold, rainy day. Memphis sanitation workers Echol Cole...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

It’s not just Black History…

People often ask me why I’m not a fan of Black History Month. My explanation...

January 27, 2023

“Am I my brother’s keeper?” The Fatal Beating of Tyre Nichols and Prayers for Peaceful Justice

Now the man knew his wife Eve, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, ‘I...

January 13, 2023

Remembering Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.|Dorothy Wellsls

As we pause to celebrate the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,...

January 09, 2023

What do two “prostitutes,” a “stripper,” an “adulteress” and a young unwed pregnant woman have to do with Jesus?

What do two "prostitutes," a "stripper," an "adulteress" and a young unwed pregnant woman have...

January 02, 2023

On healing, and stepping into the light of God’s love…

Growing up in a Christian denomination in which the scriptural stories of women were never...

December 2022

December 24, 2022

A Christmas Truce in the Midst of War…

It was the calm in the midst of the storm. That’s how historians describe the...