When I walked into the newsroom of The Athens News, nearly 19 years ago, the first thing I noticed was the clocks.
The other day, I was talking with a friend between jobs who was thinking about how to prepare for the next step. It took me back to a time I had to take the GRE — and that painful reminder of the need for preparation.
Get ready for the onslaught of stories and advertisements from people you probably shouldn’t trust, subject: prostate cancer.
A lot of Christians today say they want a Christian nation. One would think, as a pastor, I would too. The Bible and history make my position more complicated.
It might be possible, please hear me out, that there is some aspect of the new Pope, Leo XIV, more important than whether he roots for the Cubs or the White Sox, as needful of divine intervention as those two teams tend to be.
The Boys are back — one standing, one sitting — both trying to make sense of Cardinals chaos, Blues heartbreak and the first hundred days of Trump 2.0. Plus: speculation on the next album from Taylor Swift and a meditation on the mystery of Jesus’ two natures.
Nowadays it is difficult to get a grasp on what we could reasonably call reality. Okay, fine, I’ll play. If that building on falsehood is not to my taste, I’ll start with what I know is real and work from there. I’m talking about photography. Of real things as they really exist.
When Pope Francis passed away, some people asked me for an evaluation of his pontificate. A few days have passed since. Our Catholic friends finished their mourning period, and the conclave starts tomorrow, so now I think it’s the right time to share my thoughts.
This week, a Christian friend shared a new claim about an alleged health cure based on an event that never happened. Another shared what the briefest of searches would have revealed was a falsehood about a political foe. The short-term “win” is often a long way from the truth.
This is likely a week we will remember as the beginning of something truly awful. The only question, really, is how awful.