by Monty Self | Aug 19, 2022 | Opinion
The United States spent $4.1 trillion on health care in 2020, which is around $12,530 per person and 19.7% of the nation’s gross domestic product. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, this only reflects a 9.7% increase over 2019, which is around 4% higher than the average...
by Riya Kohli | Aug 19, 2022 | Opinion
No student should ever be made to feel excluded in school. But this past U.S. Supreme Court term delivered decision after decision dismantling decades of progress in the separation of religion and schools. The conservative justices of the court seem eager to erode...
by Mitch Randall | Aug 18, 2022 | Opinion
Over 400 disciples met in New Orleans, Louisiana, this week to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the Lott Carey Global Christian Missional Community. African American Baptists committed to international missions, meeting since 1897, gather to discuss strategizing and...
by Clark Frailey | Aug 18, 2022 | Opinion
A former Methodist minister turned Baptist pastor named Evan Dhu Cameron was the first state superintendent in the newly formed state of Oklahoma. In 1908, he wrote: “It is true that our public-school system is ‘the spring from whence all our liberties flow,’ and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 17, 2022 | Opinion
Do you know anyone who couldn’t quote a line or two from Green Eggs and Ham, the classic children’s book by Dr. Seuss? The author’s last name was actually Geisel, by the way, and he didn’t hold a doctorate of any sort. And, he pronounced Seuss (his middle name) as...
by Kristina Collins | Aug 17, 2022 | Opinion
Hillary Clinton wrote a book in 1996 titled, It Takes a Village, where she shared her vision to make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become smart, able, resilient adults. Mrs. Clinton believes that how children develop and what they need...
