Perhaps Kentucky’s most famous living writer, Wendell Berry, has created in his Port William stories a rural community of folks trying to make sense of the modern world. Berry’s tales are inhabited by farmers and shopkeepers leading lives that are at once filled with struggle and fulfillment. I have read Berry’s stories during some of Read More
Last week’s The Murray State News Faces and Places series installment featured Cash Willis, senior from St. Louis, Mo., and his preaching to the Monday and Wednesday lunchtime student and faculty traffic on the walkway between the library and the Curris Center. Willis “shares the Gospel” from his park bench, to all who happen by. Read More
While we’re slowly but surely seeing equal rights for the LGBT community in America, there are other countries who are on a far different side of the spectrum. Because of the Sochi Winter Olympics, foreigners questioned whether gay and lesbian athletes would be safe to compete in a country that has strict laws against homosexuality. Read More
Myspace used to rule a lot of people’s lives. The ones of us who chose to openly admit it, though, are very few and far between. Once I discovered that this method of communicating with friends was available, and that my parents couldn’t see it or know how to access it, I was caught up Read More
When I was a kid, I once told a lie. This was a world-class whopper. Lies were not very good strategies for bonding in my family; although our mother was the soul of charity and forgiveness, it was her custom to refer the heavy lifting in the discipline department to a specialist – to The Read More
It’s everywhere. In the print media, magazines and newspapers, online in blogs, news sources, chat rooms, Facebook discussions, tweets, at speaking presentations and debates: the culture war, secularism vs. religion. It seems like it is new, like it just started around at the millennium or less than a decade ago since the “New Atheist” books Read More
It is that time of year for me to be conflicted again, and it looks as if I had better get used to it. Yes, every time the OVC men’s basketball tournament rolls around in March, my loyalties will be tested. For as everyone who knows me well understands, I am a die-hard Racers fan. Read More
I will never forget waking up for Christmas when I was 6 years old and getting the Easy Bake Oven I begged my mother for. My parents both loved to cook, and I thought my parents were the coolest, so that led me to want to cook. As a 90s kid, my first option was Read More