Cook: Please lock your doors, Erlanger executives
I'm not sure most patients can name the new CEO of Erlanger Health System.
Cook: Hamilton County and the medicine of black moral witness
The more I think about it, the angrier I get.
Cook: Black protest, white silence and the future of a sheriff
In July, a group of 50 suit-and-tie African-American preachers, ministers and supporters stood outside the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, declaring it was time for Jim Hammond to resign.
Cook: Salt of the Earth – the life of Johnny ‘Digger’ Tucker
Writing this column has taken me powerful places; I've met presidents and rock stars, visited prisons, protests and places so secret I can't say in print.
Cook: Bias training and the reconstruction of the mind
Not long ago, I was driving home and passed by a construction crew working in the front yard of a neighborhood home. Six of the crewmen stood in the yard. Five were white. One was black.
Cook: Why are other southern states installing more solar than Tennessee?
Tuesday evening, on the hottest day of the year, the parking lot thermometer read 102 degrees in St. Elmo.
Cook: We must stop burning fossil fuels
Some 15 years ago, after reading a review from George Will, I picked up Matthew Scully's "Dominion," a haunting nonfiction account of animal cruelty inside factory farming and the theological reasons for fighting it.
Cook: Downtown Chattanooga is not Disney – say no to Business Improvement District
Downtown Chattanooga's proposed Business Improvement District is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Cook: How to travel the world without leaving home
Long before she swam with bull sharks in Fiji or wept with Buddhist nuns in Cambodia or heard the voice of God while sick on a bathroom floor in Nicaragua, Tracey Carisch sat down one Chattanooga night with a simple glass of pinot noir.
Cook: This is what racial reconciliation can look like
More than a century after the lynching murder of Ed Johnson, the healing work continues.
