Faith compels me

Taylor Walding Variety Editor Throughout my three-year run with the Trop, I have avoided opinion writing like the plague. In person, I enjoy controversy and debate but stirring it up with an unknown audience behind computer screens seems far more daunting to me than a face-to-face discussion. Online debates further perpetuate an already polarized culture, leaving persons feeling as though they need to walk on eggshells around colleagues, classmates and strangers. When writing for sports, news, features or other sections, there’s less ownership of the content produced because you’re not…

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