by George Mason | Mar 4, 2021 | Opinion
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has announced that as of March 10, all pandemic-related restrictions, including the mandate to wear masks, will be lifted. This decision comes as a result of progress in vaccinations and decline statewide of COVID-19 infections and death. It...
by Erin Albin Hill | Oct 16, 2020 | Opinion
I am a licensed social worker in the state of Texas. I also am a seminary graduate. When both of these roles are approached ethically, responsibly and with appropriate boundaries, they work together beautifully. It is because of my faith that I deeply care about...
by Beth Allison Barr | Aug 17, 2020 | Opinion
The nothingness surprised me. I stepped over the low stone wall and walked down the path to the river. The water of the Brazos River stood still in the summer evening, reflecting only a slightly blurred image of the I-35 bridge crossing into downtown Waco, Texas....
by Bruce T. Gourley | Jun 19, 2020 | Opinion
The Emancipation Proclamation had been signed more than two-and-a-half years earlier. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee had surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant more than two months before, ending the treasonous Confederate States of America – an imagined white...
by Jonathan Davis | May 22, 2020 | Opinion
The coronavirus pandemic has placed financial strain on colleges and universities nationwide, and enrollment is expected to drop by as much as 20% in the fall. Small, religious institutions face a particularly difficult future, as they depend heavily on tuition for...
