By - Gareth Jones For fans of redemption stories, real-life inspiration stories, Colman Domingo Working in the Office of Service-Learning and Undergraduate Research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, I have had the privilege to participate in the Donaldson Lecture Series, a 30 plus year program where professors and staff give lectures to incarcerated men at the Donaldson Correctional Facility.  I have had some of my most meaningful discussions […]

By - Gareth Jones For fans of Hugh Grant, thoughtful horror, theological discussions Growing up in Utah as a non-Mormon, I was still surrounded by and enveloped in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Most of my friends were members of “the church” as it was called, and I even played church basketball on a regular basis until my teens.  My mother’s side of the family was also […]