“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.” --Harper Lee

Monthly archives for October, 2010

Birth of a Liberal

Oct 23, 2010 ~ Written by Russell ~ 3 Comments
Birth of a Liberal Because I’m cursed with introspection and curious (like my namesake) about how people change, I’ve often tried to nail down the start of my transformation from fundamentalist to whatever radical leftist label you want to assign to me today. (I choose Liberal, myself.) I think it began to happen my first semester in college at Geo [...]
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“I Shall Wear Purple”

Oct 19, 2010 ~ Written by Russell ~ 8 Comments
My hometown has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s hard to say exactly why, but really, does it matter? That’s what hometowns are for: to remind us who we are, where we are from, where we might go to. Hometowns connect us to our families, our histories, our selves. And they remind us that we’re often WAY too big for our brit [...]
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“What are people for?”

Oct 06, 2010 ~ Written by Russell ~ 13 Comments
Dr. Molly Marshall, formerly of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary–now, happily, the President of Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas, taught theology at Southern Seminary while I was there in the early 90s. She was the first female Associate Professor of Theology at Southern. I am still saddened to say that she is als [...]
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