The once-in-a-generation results from Tuesday’s special election in Alabama, and the campaigns that preceded it, offer several windows into the present-day political and social issues facing the nation. It would be easiest to look at those lessons tied to the winner, Doug Jones: that Democrats must reach both Black voters, […]
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Depressed While Black: Emboldened Racism Takes a Toll on African American Mental Health
All her adult life, novelist Crystal Wilkinson has “take[n] the back roads.” She grew up on Indian Creek, in Casey Co., Kentucky. “I’m from these hills,” she says. So when she had to drive nearly four hours home to Lexington, Ky., from a reading she gave at Ohio University, in […]
Read MoreWhat Sets Rural Churches Apart? It’s Not Politics, Money, or Theology
The real difference is the resilience that comes from generations of families committed to one place. “What is the most significant difference between urban and rural churches?” That was the question I was asked at a church conference. It was a good question, and I knew what my answer […]
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