Like the house in the centuries-old English nursery rhyme, "The House that Jack Built," the building in my unoriginal and crude poem below appears chaotic and poorly built. Perhaps it looks the way it does because I'm angry, shocked, troubled, sad, defeated...

There are no words to describe this...

Dr. King preached a sermon before the home audience, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta in 1968. He was serving as its co-pastor with his father at the time. Titled "The Drum Major Instinct," it was a sermon in which, many say, he seemed to sense his own limited days. It...

Two weeks ago an article ran in the Tennessean in Nashville. It described the completely all-white male voting membership of the most exclusive country club in the Nashville area and the saga of one its members. In this news item however, an important story was revealed: social privilege...

Christians seem to have a genetic disposition for describing people and events through a biblical lens. It makes sense. We are story-formed people, and the Bible shapes our political, moral and social imaginations.

It follows, then, that our judgments about Presidents and presidential candidates will...