Editor’s note – this editorial was submitted by Reverend Dana Ezell from Trinity United Methodist Church in Atlanta. For those readers who need more background, in February 2019, the UMC bishops convened in St. Louis and voted in favor of the Traditional Plan, which reaffirms the denomination’s prohibitions against same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy despite… Read more »
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” On Martin Luther King Day 2019, we are hopeful for our future. There’s a lot of negativity in the world right now, a lot of which we can’t control. However, one thing we can do is control how we feel and how we use those… Read more »
Editor’s note–the following is an excerpt from a manuscript by Andrea Walker The day I knew I wanted to be a writer was also the day I went “missing” and my face almost ended up on a milk carton. I was nine years old and had finished reading an excerpt from Walden by Henry David… Read more »
Editor’s note–the following editorial is contributed by Kevin Sprague Where have all the gentlemen gone? I have pondered this question for a few months, since I read Peggy Noonan’s op-ed “America Needs More Gentlemen” in the Wall Street Journal. In the piece, Noonan laments how men in our society seemingly have “lost track” of what… Read more »
“How do you win against the State Department?” On March 29, 2018, Samantha and Alex Tutterrow left their home in Georgia to adopt their second baby girl from Japan. The Tutterrows had adopted a Japanese orphan, Annie, in 2016, and were on the way to adopt her sister. The Tutterrows started the adoption process in… Read more »
Winter 2018 is pretty much the worst for Georgia fans The Dawgs narrowly missed our first National Championship win in nearly 40 years. The Falcons lost in the playoffs relinquishing a shot at redemption in the Super Bowl. And because we’ve been so caught up in football (at the time of writing this piece), the… Read more »