by Greg Adams | Jun 30, 2022 | Opinion
I am in search of a narrative following the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the subsequent diminishment of the rights of body and life autonomy for women. Part of this is personal. As I have written elsewhere, my wife and I decided to end a pregnancy after it was found...
by George E. Oliver | Jun 29, 2022 | Opinion
Bodily autonomy’s centrality to the existence of liberty is genetically encoded in my memory, in my very being. I reflect on a profound irony of two starkly contrasting events that took place in the same week. A son of Texas, a descendant of former slaves finally...
by Libby Carroll | Jun 29, 2022 | Opinion
It seems as if everyone is mourning the death of civil discourse these days. Last spring, distressed by a cultural inability to have productive and meaningful conversations, four friends and I pitched an idea for a new student organization at Baylor University, which...
by John D. Pierce | Jun 28, 2022 | Opinion
It seems that common courtesy is just not very common. I am not yearning for some romanticized, yesteryear version of politeness that only exists in aging imaginations. I’m talking about the overt, socially acceptable public ugliness that has exploded in recent years....
by Geneece Goertzen | Jun 28, 2022 | Opinion
I clearly remember one specific portion of my very first convocation in seminary. There was a generalized feeling of awe upon me as I entered Truett Seminary’s chapel in the fall of 2018. I felt what probably could best be described as that “cloud of witnesses” in the...
by Amy Butler | Jun 27, 2022 | Opinion
The fundamental rights of over half our country have just been erased. Our neighbors will suffer, and we need to say something. This is a time in which people of faith should speak up. But I confess, I’m too tired. I’m tired of coming up with words that try to explain...
