Words of Faith

STACY MASSEY 2008 Graduated Metro High School and Bayless High School 2012 BJ journalism and BA gender studies, University of Missouri 2013 Served two years as Communications Coordinator, Night Ministry, Chicago IL...

This is not everything, but it is many important things. Not an annual report or an audit, these are some fun facts that might help tell the story of what keeps us...

As many readers will know, it was with an interest-free loan that The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis began in 1920 and the loan program was the primary way the Foundation supported...

But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an everflowing stream. Amos 5:24 In the five years since launching Words of Faith, I don’t believe I’ve ever opened a post...

Given the title of this blog, the dispiriting post I wrote two weeks ago would never have worked. The piece was long and fraught with critique about what the world is doing...

It is so hard to feel connected in a world like this. Recent weeks have found me worrying about the loss of belonging among our board, staff, and community. What has caused...

We are a learning institution. For 102 years, we’ve professed belief in the power of higher education. Our foremothers understood that the right to learn and develop one’s thinking is an essential...

These days, the offices of The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis feel a bit like an airport terminal does in the depths of a stubborn pandemic.  Assuming you are boosted and wearing...

We need to be paying attention, at The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis and everywhere else that inequity is a threat and democracy is endangered. And I don’t think it hyperbole to...

I’m sharing with you one of the most valuable benefits of my job: reason to hope. I can’t go even a day being discouraged by the state of democracy and the entrenched...

Last night, eleven Policy Fellows marked the end of their nine-month fellowship with a showcase of their research and experiences. Throughout two hours of presentations and dialogue, the steady guidance of former...

Journalist Sylvester Brown, Jr. received the essay written by Scholarship Foundation Campus Policy Fellows and wanted to meet with them right away. Brown began the discussion with Anne Marie, Jessika, Kennedi, and...