Opinion: Set expectations for being better together
Setting an expectation that attempts to find shared culture and values makes it possible to achieve more than if individual agendas drive each person’s actions.
G. Scott Morris
There are 79 articles by G. Scott Morris :
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August 2021
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Guest Columnists
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July 2021
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Guest Columnists Opinion: The impact of COVID-19 on faith is a mixed bag
Dr. Scott Morris: The good news is that according to the Pew Research Center, almost 3 in 10 Americans say that their faith in God increased during the pandemic.
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June 2021
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Guest Columnists Opinion: On D-Day 77 years ago, victory was uncertain
“We have seen so many movies of Omaha Beach that the event is embedded in our national psyche. From this side of the events, and with the help of Hollywood, it seems God-ordained that the response we all know was certain to lead to the victory we take for granted. It was, of course, anything but certain.”
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May 2021
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Guest Columnists Opinion: A friend’s death provides insight
Lynne Turley taught music in the Memphis City Schools for 22 years. She believed that every child was musical.
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April 2021
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Guest Columnists Opinion: The shooting death of a 4-year-old calls for outrage
The children at Perea are taught that if they come across a gun, they are to “Stop, don’t touch, turn around, tell an adult.” The sad fact is that many of them can already tell the teacher exactly where the guns in their houses are hidden.
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Guest Columnists Opinion: A pattern for ‘making babies’ teaches diversity
There is never a day a child can’t be made to smile with a small doll after a visit to the doctor at Church Health that may have seemed scary.
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March 2021
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Guest Columnists Opinion: The ‘irrational disease’ of anti-Semitism persists
‘I suspect most people who read this will think that anti-Semitism is nothing we need to worry about in Memphis, but they are wrong. Wherever white supremacy exists it is led by those who hate Jews.’
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February 2021
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Guest Columnists Opinion: Explore Memphis as a pilgrim, not a tourist
Once we have gotten to know the people who have called Memphis home through the good and the bad, we can start to understand this place we inhabit together.
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January 2021
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Guest Columnists Opinion: Resolutions to help us face ‘the real work of life’
Scott Morris: “The year of COVID-19 taught me that there might not be time for all the fanciful dreams we put on hold.”
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December 2020
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Guest Columnists Opinion: A premature birth, a baptism and a prayer
Julia will not remember her long days in the ICU, nor our experience this year of COVID-19, nor even the beauty of her baptism. But all who love her will.
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November 2020
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Guest Columnists Opinion: What it means to be an American
We will elect a president, but the fundamental nature of being an American does not depend on a single individual; it depends on our collective nature and the principles we practice.
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October 2020
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Guest Columnists Opinion: Some resolutions to support kindness
“When I overhear political conversations with which I disagree, I catch myself with unkind thoughts. I wonder how people can think like that... Then I realize my own thoughts reflect the reality I am condemning.”
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September 2020
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Guest column
Guest ColumnistsOpinion: While life has slowed down, let the written word take you to new places
I started thinking about the books that have influenced my life most. Each of these books, at one point in my life, altered my thinking or changed my behavior in a meaningful way.
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August 2020
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Guest Columnists Opinion: ‘I’m not OK, and you’re not OK, and that’s OK’
Amid the struggles we are going through, the gist of William Sloane Coffin’s saying is on point. Except for the most disciplined of us all, who is not exhausted by the strain and uncertainty?
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July 2020
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Guest Columnists Opinion: She lived 87 years, and had nothing to regret
At Ora Alexander’s homegoing, only family could gather. But that was OK. Ora had already touched the lives of so many people she’d simply met in passing.
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June 2020
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Guest column
Guest ColumnistsOppose racism, one ‘wondrous being’ at a time
We talk about “the homeless,” “the immigrants,” “the poor.” These are categories that are different from how we see ourselves. It allows us to remain in power.
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May 2020
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GUEST COLUMN
Guest ColumnistsChurch Health CEO: A health care crisis is headed our way
Physical distancing and wearing masks will not prevent the rising number of people who do not have health insurance.
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Guest column
Guest ColumnistsMorris: A healing dose of Brooks Ramsey’s wisdom
Hundreds of people in Memphis will tell you that Brooks made life worth living again or saved their marriages. If ever I was in the dark pit, I called Brooks, and he talked me out.
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April 2020
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Guest column
Guest ColumnistsMorris: We just need to keep walking
Memphis has always been a religious city. We will rise to the occasion, because we are a city driven by the engine of faith.
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March 2020
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Guest Columnists Morris: A virus alters reality at Church Health
Tomorrow when someone takes my temperature and hands me a mask and a paper bag, I’ll remember that everybody I’m about to see is also adjusting to new realities.
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Guest Columnists Morris: The faith community and COVID-19
A Facebook page will be the home base for this unified faith effort. You can find the page by searching for Memphis Clergy COVID-19 Response. Anyone can access the page and offer to work on a project.
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Guest Columnists Morris: Fear of the virus competes with fear of not working
The most common question I’m asked remains, “When can I get back to work?” Without work, no one gets paid, and without paychecks, kids don’t eat.
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Guest Columnists Morris: Put fear of coronavirus in perspective
I believe the solution to most matters of fear is to embrace the opposite of fear: love. This is rarely what people want to hear from the doctor. They are looking for the right medicine or course of treatment.
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February 2020
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Guest Columnists Morris: Memphis, meet a new fellow citizen
At 25, Andrea left Venezuela and moved to Memphis, where her uncle is a mechanical engineer. She applied to work as a waitress, in retail and in day care, and each place told her she was over-qualified. Finally, in 2015, she took a job at Church Health.
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January 2020
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Guest Columnists Morris: A weighty issue
Waking up with the flu. A power outage. A bad traffic jam. The Tigers getting into a Power 5 conference. These are all gravity issues. Nothing I do affects them.
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