By Rev. Catherine LyleReader Contributor Jesus was clear and persistent in his call to love everyone; yet, throughout history, Christians have repeatedly failed to live out the servant-hearted discipleship he taught, leaving wounds that...
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist In his acceptance speech after winning the Senate race in Texas, James Talarico spoke the words so many in his state had been waiting to hear: “We just took back...
By Jen Jackson QuintanoReader Contributor Despite the striving and storytelling of thousands over the past several years, on Tuesday, Nov. 3, a majority of Idahoans chose not to restore reproductive rights in our state....
By Zach HagadoneReader Staff The day after an election is always exhausting. Win or lose, they’re stressful exercises that more often than not combine overthinking with overdrinking, unhealthy food and long hours. This one,...
By Ben OlsonReader Staff For the first time in the Reader’s history, we ran the candidate questionnaire responses that we publish before every election through an AI-detection software called Pangram. We were surprised and...
On the alphabet and tragic fiction By Sandy ComptonReader Columnist About 3,800 years ago, just over 1% of the time that modern humans have been around, the Babylonian King Hammurabi ordered the creation of...
By Betsy Z. RussellReader Contributor In my nearly four decades covering Idaho politics, I saw lots of political mischief, mayhem and skullduggery. But I find the current misinformation and disinformation campaign against Proposition 1...
Words of the Year provide a long view at the bubbling yeast of humanity By Ben OlsonReader Staff In 2003, Merriam-Webster began declaring a Word of the Year because it was the most-searched definition...
By Emily EricksonReader Columnist There’s a trope about Millennials: We love it when our plans get canceled. We get to stay home instead of attending the social engagement we agreed to during a period...
By Brad SmithReader Contributor Some of my fondest childhood memories involve hiking to pristine alpine destinations like Harrison Lake, catching cutthroat trout in a secret stream and seeing a rare mountain caribou in the...
