by Doug Weaver | Nov 8, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Dec. 2, 2002. At the time of publication, Weaver was professor of Christianity and chair of the religion and philosophy division at Brewton-Parker College in Mount Vernon, Georgia. Roger Williams, a Puritan minister and...
by Doug Weaver | Jul 20, 2007 | Opinion
I often have college students do an essay on race relations and the Christian heritage in light of reading Martin Luther King, Jr. Most students express an appreciation of King’s life and work but many add: “We are glad that the issue of race relations is...
by Doug Weaver | Oct 6, 2004 | Opinion
I was introduced to a meeting of a rural association by a member of a church where I was doing an interim pastorate. The man told the crowd, “We are glad to have preaching to us tonight, Dr. Doug Weaver. He teaches at the college down the road. But we...
by Doug Weaver | Jun 21, 2004 | News
Soon after his election as president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1993, Albert Mohler declared his intent to pursue only faculty members who would restrict the pastorate to males. Molly Marshall–at the time a theology professor at the...
by Doug Weaver | Jun 9, 2004 | Opinion
The divisions within Protestantism have bedeviled believers ever since the Reformation in the 16th century. In his recent novel, The Last Juror, John Grisham pokes fun at these divisions as he describes the life of Willie Traynor, the young owner of a small-town...
