THE BIG PICTURE, CONT. MIKE ROSS Candidate for governor Democrat Favorite artist: Justin Moore Favorite song: Justin Moore’s “Small Town USA” Favorite concert experience: It’s a tie between being backstage with Collin Raye in De Queen (he went to high school with my wife, Holly) and backstage with Glen Campbell in Nashville, Ark. Favorite song that makes reference to Arkansas: Waylan Holyfield’s “Arkansas (You Run Deep In Me).” Any any musical talent? I used to played tuba in the Hope High School Super Band and used to play piano — emphasis on “used to.” JOHN BURKHALTER Candidate for lieutenant governor Republican Favorite artist/band: Fleetwood Mac, but I do have to admit that there is an Adele CD in my car right now. Favorite song: Mason Williams’ “Classical Gas.” Favorite concert experience: Seeing the Commodores at the Pine Bluff Convention Center in 1978. Favorite song that makes reference to Arkansas: It’s probably cliche, but I really do love the state song, “Arkansas (You Run Deep In Me).” Any musical talent? I started playing the saxophone and the drums in 7th grade. I have a Pearl concert drum kit at my house and I still show off for my wife every now and then. I do still have the sax, but I don’t pull it out as much as I should.
REP. CHARLIE COLLINS Candidate for lieutenant governor Republican Favorite songs: Chris Tomlin’s “God of this City” and David Frizzell’s and Shelly West’s “You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma.” Favorite concert experience: I’ve only been to like one concert in my life. Well, I’ve seen the Go-Go’s and Barry Manilow. My wife dragged me to one of those. Favorite song that mentions Arkansas: The Guess Who’s “We’re an American Band.” I’ve always liked that song but I didn’t know until the last couple years about Sweet Connie. REP. ANDY MAYBERRY Candidate for lieutenant governor Republican Favorite artist: Elvis Presley Favorite band: Journey Favorite song: Merle Haggard’s “Walking on the Fightin’ Side of Me” Favorite concert experience: Billy Joel and Elton John at War Memorial Favorite song that makes reference to Arkansas: Terry Rose’s “Oh, Arkansas” Any musical talent? I sing in the shower and marvel at those who can play any instrument. LESLIE RUTLEDGE Candidate for attorney general Republican Favorite artist: Loretta Lynn. I love the fact that she taught herself to play, sang her own songs and she and Doolittle just got in that car and made their own success. She wasn’t “found”; she sacrificed and worked hard for that success. Favorite song: Dottie West’s “Country Sunshine”
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JAMES LEE WITT Candidate for 4th District Congress Democrat Favorite artist: Vince Gill Favorite song: Carrie Underwood’s “Jesus Take the Wheel” Favorite concert experience: My wife, Lea Ellen, and I were walking down the street in Toronto and noticed that Neil Diamond was playing. We walked up and got the last two tickets available. They were in the nose bleed section, but we had a great time. Favorite song that makes reference to Arkansas: Wayland Holyfield’s “Arkansas (You Run Deep in Me)”
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REP. NATE STEEL Candidate for attorney general Democrat Favorite artist: Levon Helm. Favorite song: Robert Earl Keen “Feeling Good Again” Favorite concert experience: I don’t know. I saw Zac Brown band a few years ago and that was a great experience. Favorite Arkansas song: I have an entire playlist of these. I’d have to say “Arkansas, You Run Deep In Me” by Wayland Holyfield. “Good Lord Lorrie” by Turnpike Troubadors is a close second. It references Sevier County a couple of times. Any musical talent? I play guitar, harmonica, and I’ve tried my hand at the fiddle but couldn’t get anywhere with it.
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Favorite concert experience: Alabama at Barnhill Arena Favorite song that makes reference to Arkansas: Billy Ray Cyrus’ “Achy Breaky Heart” Any musical talent? Not if you ask my junior high band director! I attempted for years to play the trombone.
Still, Ball said, San Damiano isn’t right for everyone. If a person is happy in his or her own church, Ball said, that’s where they should remain. “I always try to be careful with how I present who we are, because if somebody is content in the church where they’ve been — whether they’re Roman Catholics or Methodist or whatever — we want them to stay there,” he said. “One of the things I tell people when they come is that they’re welcome to walk with us for as long or as short a time as they need to, and that our desire is for them to be in the right place spiritually.” Lisa Kuykendall has been a parishioner at San Damiano for five years. Standing in a slow drizzle at a church-sponsored “blessing of the animals” event at Murray Park in Little Rock, she said that she had been a lifelong Roman Catholic before coming to San Damiano. It was her husband, she said, who got her interested. “He saw it in the newspaper and wanted to go and wanted to go,” she said, “and I’d say, ‘No! It’s not Roman Catholic, we’re not going!’ Finally, I gave in. I’ve been here ever since.”
While Kuykendall has been encouraged by some of the statements of Pope Francis regarding the Church’s involvement in social justice issues, and calls him a blessing to the whole world, she said it was the inclusiveness that brought her to ecumenical Catholicism. “[Roman Catholicism is] a little more closed than I wanted,” she said. “In the Roman Catholic church, in order to receive Communion, you must be a Roman Catholic. In our church, anybody who has been baptized can receive Communion. I think that’s very important. Communion to me is such a closeness to God. It really gets you through the week.” Ball said San Damiano just tries to be welcoming to all while offering a “Franciscan-flavored” faith that emphasizes community involvement. That sense of involvement is attractive to people who may have found that praying for change is not enough. “There have been times when we’ve had more people out on a Saturday morning doing a homeless outreach event than we had at Mass on Saturday night,” Ball said. “That’s fine with me. That’s where the action is. That’s making a real connection between spirituality and community engagement.”