by John D. Pierce | Mar 21, 2023 | Feature, Opinion
It is amazing how comfortable so many people have become with the embrace of untruths. Including, in large numbers, those who profess to be Christians. This is not a matter of misunderstanding. It is an intentional choice about where to put one’s stake in the ground....
by Kira Dewey | Jul 12, 2022 | Opinion
Many Christians today demonstrate the belief that it is up to themselves to “save” their non-Christian neighbors at the expense of loving and civil conversation. While Christians verbally acknowledge their own fallibility and God’s saving grace, their behavior tends...
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 Mitch Carnell | Feb 2, 2022 | Opinion
The conversation was flowing as usual at a dinner with friends when suddenly my friend grew very angry. I did not see this outburst coming. He asked a question about the recent national election, which I responded to in a very polite manner. He accused me of a lack of...
by Ron Rolheiser | Nov 3, 2021 | Opinion
“No man is an island.” John Donne wrote those words four centuries ago, and they are as true now as they were then, except we don’t believe them anymore. Today, more and more of us are beginning to define our nuclear families and our carefully chosen circle of friends...
