Laboring in Vain?
Fall 2024
Are our efforts to advance technology working, or are they just creating a monster?
Featured Posts
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A Good Death
Nina Ferguson, 91, is resting in a hospital bed in her room in the home she shares with her friend and caregiver, Lucy Lupu. Nina is slender and frail – Lucy estimates her carrying weight at 95 pounds – but her eyes are bright and clear, and she thumps her chest defiantly when Lucy suggests…
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Q & A with local volunteers
Story By Lela Atwood Kay Furman Mission Waco Q: Why should people volunteer? A: Volunteering brings a different kind of satisfaction than a job. You do it solely when you want to with the satisfaction and the knowledge that you are helping people. You get a better idea of what you have. It’s not easy…
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Cancer Never Looked So Good
Almost 10 years after recovering from breast cancer, Deborah Deaton heard what no woman wants to hear: “Your breast cancer has returned, and it’s worse this time.”
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Safe: When abuse hits home
Story By Melyssa Brown Photos By Stephen Green LAST AUGUST, KAREN FINALLY DID IT. “And he’s outside and he came up, just like a tornado, screaming in the front yard, hollering at me.” He told her they needed to talk. Her friend begged her not to get in his truck, but it “was a matter…
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Poor on Purpose
ix friends sit together outside of Common Grounds on a damp and drizzly evening. The table’s overhead umbrella keeps them dry as they discuss theology and the true meaning of Christian community, conversation foreign to most university coffee shops, but typical at Baylor.
