CHRIS HUGHES WRITES

There are many reasons why I believe in the power of voting. One is because several years ago, I was out campaigning with my friend Kolby...

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first...

I really don’t know where to start with the recent events in Charlottesville. In fact, I’ve had so much trouble sorting through all of it...

Thanks a lot, Obama. The phrase started out as an expression of Republican rage against the policies of the President. But as it was...

Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend. Mrs....

Sabbath rest is, in my opinion, the most difficult practice of all Jewish and Christian practices. For so many years, I’ve said “Oh I’ll...

“And so my prayer is that your story will have involved some leaving and some coming home, some summer and some winter, some roses...

[On] Writing: shitty first drafts. Butt in chair. Just do it. You own everything that happened to you. You are going to feel like hell if...

Every so often, a friend of mine from high school will post on Facebook a “Tuesday Toast” giving a shout out to someone who has had an...

I’ve never been one to make goals and have always had a terrible time actually putting some thought into things like New Year’s...

We gathered in the familiar living room of the Trinity Center, the counseling center where I work part-time as a front desk assistant,...

Since about mid-September, I have been working to organize a local Help-Portrait event for Winston-Salem this year. Help-Portrait was...

My father has never been one to want to wait. When I think of my days in school, I think of all the times I rushed and rushed myself out...

Pastor Furtick, Much has been made about the recent revelations of the lavish house you are building for yourself in North Carolina. Such...

For Duncan, the beach vacation only makes things worse. He struggles to get along with his mother’s new beau and even more to get along...

And something great happened that summer seven years ago. I met some really great friends – people that I love very dearly to this day –...

Like many religious persons, I have watched this presidential election with particular interest. As far as religion is concerned, this...

“The Kingdom of God is as if someone would scatter seed on the ground, and would sleep and rise night and day, and the seed would sprout...

I always love good stories. I love good stories because in good stories, people face daunting challenges and decisions. Part of a good...

On May 8th, North Carolina voters will cast their ballots on a proposed amendment to the constitution that reads like this: Marriage...