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    Letter to the Editor: A response to ‘A Christian’s call to deep self-reflection and self-criticism’

    Painting missionaries with the same broad brush is misleading. It excludes those who’ve done a great amount of good in many different parts of the world.

    By Letters to the Editor September 20, 2022
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    Guest Column: My Friend, Memphis

    Memphis weeps for the beautiful lives and souls of those cut short by monsters. Yet all of this — all the horrors and the beauty — are a byproduct of the same place. A juxtaposition that is difficult to comprehend.

    By Kemp Conrad, Gina Weathersby September 19, 2022
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    Four years after launch, The Daily Memphian continues to grow

    The successes we’ve had — along with our continued desire to improve, to expand, and to work even harder — are possible because of so many readers like you.

    By Eric Barnes September 20, 2022
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    Opinion: A Christian’s call to deep self-reflection and self-criticism

    “I learned to be self-critical, to understand context and history before rushing to judgment. I learned to ask “why” questions before adopting the kind of moral confidence that only God can claim.”

    By Tom Fuerst September 18, 2022
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    Letter to the Editor: This is not God’s plan

    The Rev. Sandy Webb of Church of the Holy Communion: God has never given up on humanity. And, neither must we.

    By Letters to the Editor September 17, 2022
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    Letter to the Editor: Despite gun violence, I choose not to be frozen by fear

    “To me, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis is an organization that combats the effects of poverty, hatred and violence with love.”

    Related story: 

    Letter to the Editor: This is not God’s plan

    By Letters to the Editor September 17, 2022
  • Dan Conaway

    Conaway: Pauses in the flow, a city’s tragic losses

    Eliza Fletcher was a measure of this city. This tiny, tiny town with such a huge, huge heart. 

    By Dan Conaway September 16, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Raising awareness of Myotonic Dystrophy key to improving quality of life

    Beginning the conversation is the first step in moving the needle towards care and a cure.

    By Hannah Warren September 15, 2022
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: Fighting crime requires real solutions, not political grandstanding and finger-pointing

    Tenn. Gov. Bill Lee, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, MPD and the TBI all share the responsibility for our failure to reduce local crime. But their responses in the aftermath of an incredibly tragic week are not good enough. 

    By Otis Sanford September 15, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Women should be able to run at 4:20 a.m. — but it’s complicated

    “Women should be able to run — to exist in any space at any time — without fear of violence. But that isn’t the reality we live in,” says guest columnist Sarah Hunter Simanson.

    By Sarah Hunter Simanson September 12, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: What must Republicans do to win in Shelby County?

    With Republicans losing every county office, a former local party executive director looks at what the GOP needs to consider if it’s going to win again.

    By Kristina Garner October 22, 2022
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: A caring lawyer, a ruthless youth offender and, 22 years later, a heartbreaking homicide

    One was an attorney who used the law to make a positive difference in society. The other was a gun-wielding juvenile delinquent. Their paths crossed on the evening of May 25, 2000, and now, 22 years later, it serves as an eerie backstory to the tragic kidnapping and murder of Eliza Fletcher.

    By Otis Sanford September 11, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: We have seen how fragile, vulnerable — and resilient — Memphis is

    “After this awful past week, many of us have something in common with Robert Church — we have the option to leave and the privilege of choice. I am so glad Robert Church chose to stay.”

    By John Carroll September 11, 2022
  • Dan Conaway

    Conaway: The Lucca Model — a proposal

    “Let’s make Memphis an independent city-state.”

    By Dan Conaway September 09, 2022
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    Herrington: Memphis is wondrous, troubled — and not that special

    Right now, in Memphis, we’re suffering — directly for some, psychologically for all — from a spate of unusual crimes. The fear for some is that the unusual is now morphing into usual. But it’s felt that way before. 

    By Chris Herrington September 09, 2022
  • Premium Geoff Calkins

    Calkins: After a week of horror, should we still Choose 901?

    It is the most serious crisis facing the city in decades. What are Memphians to do?

    By Geoff Calkins September 09, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: School vouchers change the trajectory of students’ lives

    With the implementation of the Education Savings Account Program, families in Shelby County can receive nearly $8,200 toward tuition, fees and transportation to attend Catholic schools.

    By Nic Antoine September 08, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Guest Column: Fed official on investing in our nation’s most vulnerable workers

    Even with Memphis’ continued job growth, new headwinds emerged with the perhaps the most notable headwind today being high inflation, which has reached levels not seen for 40 years.

    By William M. Rodgers III September 05, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Morris: We are made to work

    This Labor Day, consider how work helps bring you closer to those things you value the most, whether that is God, family or something else.

    By G. Scott Morris September 04, 2022
  • Opinion

    Opinion: What student loan forgiveness gave me

    I’m a Gen Xer whose family saw college as a surefire ticket to the fabled American Dream. It instead left me saddled with debt, until now. 

    By Aisling Mäki September 03, 2022
  • Dan Conaway

    Conaway: The Tasteful List 2022

    “This city is blessed by its food, the abundance of creativity, diversity and tradition mixed in the same bowls, seasoned with love, soul and imagination — and still made and served by amazing people with a smile through the most trying of times.”

    By Dan Conaway September 02, 2022
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    Morris: Church Health continues to reflect the good in Memphis

    Thirty-five years ago, on Sept. 1, 1987, Church Health opened for the first time and cared for 12 people. In the ensuing years, more than 80,000 different individuals have come through our doors seeking help.

    By G. Scott Morris September 01, 2022
  • Otis Sanford

    Sanford: As Sugarmon assumes Juvenile Court judgeship, a different history begins

    Tarik Sugarmon ushers in a new era for Juvenile Court in Memphis and Shelby County.

    By Otis Sanford August 31, 2022
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    Herrington: Memphis in May ushered in change; now it needs to embrace it

    As tensions continue between Memphis in May and the Memphis River Parks Partnership, the festival’s stance has communicated to potential ticket-buyers that anything different than the old festival on the old footprint is destined to be a lesser experience. But it doesn’t have to be. 

    By Chris Herrington August 31, 2022
  • Guest Columnists

    Opinion: Tennessee’s near-total abortion ban will impact Shelby County disproportionately

    We must fight for abortion rights, especially for legal exemptions for medical complications as well as pregnancies caused rape and incest, and impregnated children.

    By Sarah Hunter Simanson August 28, 2022

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