by David McCollum | Feb 27, 2009 | News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—New fruit is budding from a previous dying-on-the-vine event, which originated from some tiny seeds planted here in 1971. That year, two Baptist congregations—one white, one African-American—began worshiping together once a year. In the 1980s, the...
by David McCollum | Feb 16, 2009 | Opinion
Former pastors, ministers and staff members at Second Baptist Church in Little Rock gathered there recently on the church’s 125th anniversary to dialogue about ministry. Their discussion not only illuminated how one downtown church has survived in the same location...
by David McCollum | Feb 12, 2009 | News
Showings of Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism in two tiny south Arkansas towns hit home. Chester Thompson, pastor of Zion Hill Baptist Church in Camden, Ark., and moderator-elect of CBF of Arkansas, helped host presentations of the DVD on racial attitudes,...
by David McCollum | Jan 22, 2009 | Opinion
During his inaugural address, President Barack Obama quoted the Apostle Paul, but it was really a Peter moment. Obama looked out over the most diverse crowd ever assembled for a presidential inauguration from all walks of life from every section of the country. And he...
by David McCollum | Jan 20, 2009 | News
Raouf Halaby sometimes asks his students, as he’s breaking the ice about his background, how big they think the Jordan River is. Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the situation in Gaza from the perspective of Raouf Halaby, a Palestinian...
