Who were we in the past? Who are we now? Who do we want to be in the future? Longview native Matthew McConaughey recently stated that based on where we live and where we grow up, we may have “allergies” to certain aspects of our nation’s history. In other words, we may be unaware of…
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Morning Has Broken
Several years after being baptized at the age of 14, I prayerfully chose a small Christian college to pursue my degree. There, I began to struggle with my faith. Try as I might, I couldn’t unquestioningly accept my college culture’s indoctrination. I couldn’t successfully initiate conversation or debate when I encountered a doctrinal point in…
Where I’m from
I came across this NPR poetry project recently and decided to undertake it with my students when the time came to write poetry. NPR’s collaborative poem effort was inspired by this gem by George Ella Lyon, after which I modeled my own version in order to demonstrate for my students what they’d be doing. I…