Recently, legislators submitted recommendations on teacher raises to our State Legislature’s Education Committees. The committees will meet October 3rd and 4th to discuss proposals and decide what kind—or if any—raises…
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I’m writing right now, as I often do, under a pile of Boston terriers. I have a desk in my room but during the extreme isolation of covid when everything…
What if women with unplanned pregnancy came first in church? Ever since the reversal of Roe v. Wade, I have just felt a sinking in my soul. This has perplexed…
Braver Angels Arkansas describes itself as “a citizens’ organization uniting red and blue Americans in a working alliance to depolarize America. We try to understand the other side’s point of…
With the reversal of Roe v. Wade and the subsequent diminishment of the rights of body and life autonomy for women, I am in search of a narrative. This decision…
I was born to a single woman that I’ve never met. She could have aborted me. Instead, she gave me up for adoption. I’ve been thinking about that most of…
Randy L. Hyde is the Interim Executive Coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas. You can reach him by email at [email protected] If you read my first article entitled,…
As a young pastor and doctoral student in Nashville, Tennessee, the 1979 Southern Baptist Convention meeting in Houston was my second to attend. Knowing we would be electing a new…
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