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 Monty Self | Jun 23, 2022 | Opinion
The FBI has requested public assistance in investigating a series of attacks against pro-life centers. Jane’s Revenge, an abortion rights organization, has enacted a nationwide campaign focused upon vandalizing and destroying pro-life centers. The first occurred on...
by Starlette Thomas | Jun 13, 2022 | Opinion
Before there was the “other,” there was the heathen. Christian believers have a long and troubled history of calling people names as a means of explaining their inhumane ways of bringing them to Jesus. Kathryn Gin Lum’s new book Heathen: Religion and Race in American...
by Kevin Heifner | May 23, 2022 | Opinion
Sitting on my zero-turn lawnmower is where I do my best thinking. What was on my mind after finishing my latest grass cutting were several comments that I’ve left publicly over the past few years that, in retrospect, would have been better left unsaid. Assessing my...
