Broadway Baptist Church has a long and storied history in Winchester
The year 1889 saw a number of members withdraw from the First Baptist Church on Highland Street to form a new congregation, Broadway Baptist Church. They purchased a lot on West Broadway for $1,300. The Rev. R. T. Huffman went to Nashville and had a Black architect draw up blueprints for their new brick edifice. The finished church, declared one...
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The geography of religion
I have seen many stories recently about folks leaving organized religion and choosing a different spiritual path due to what I call “religious trauma.” These stories are important and need to be told, but I wanted to add a slightly different narrative to the mix.
When grief has two shadows
There are losses that walk straight toward you, clean and heavy and unmistakable.
And then there are the other ones — the ones that slip sideways through your life, carrying a kind of ache that doesn’t announce itself so much as unravel you thread by thread.
When my mother passed a year ago, February 2025, the grief came in two forms:
the grief for the mother I had, and the grief for the mother I never got to...
Clark County nonprofits celebrate record-breaking fundraiser
On Tuesday, February 17, Clark County nonprofits gathered at Leeds Center for the Arts to learn more about the Clark County Community Foundation (CCCF) and to celebrate the incredible success of Bluegrass Gives 2025.
CCCF — not to be confused with the Greater Clark Foundation — is a fund managed by Bluegrass Community Foundation (BGCF) and directed by a local board of advisors. Since its inception in 1998, CCCF has awarded over $4 million in grants...
Spotlight: Black History Month
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Listening beneath the surface
Some people are born listening below the noise.
We notice the shift before the storm breaks.
We feel what’s coming before anyone names it.
Emotion moves through us like weather—settling in the chest, changing the light of a room, asking to be acknowledged.
This is not excess.
It is attunement.
My Great Gran was like that.
Roundabouts added to bypass extension plan
When the extension of Veterans Memorial Parkway (also known as the eastern bypass) is completed, it will include three roundabouts and a realignment of Boonesboro Rd with the existing Bypass Road (western bypass) to facilitate traffic between I‑64 and Boonesboro.
Both of these design elements represent changes to the original plan and are designed to facilitate traffic flow.
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