by John D. Pierce | Mar 17, 2008 | Opinion
Young seminarian Jonathan Merritt sure has gotten a lot of attention for his effort to get Southern Baptists more engaged in creation care. Even TIME magazine and other well-known publications picked up on it.His concern, he said, was stimulated by a systematic...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 13, 2008 | Opinion
President Jimmy Carter summoned about 65 Baptist leaders to The Carter Center in Atlanta yesterday (March 12) to consider follow-up steps to the highly successful Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant held earlier this year. The group worked through multiple...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 11, 2008 | Opinion
An interesting article from AlterNet (by Rob Boston of Church and State) reveals why some former high-profile leaders of the so-called Religious Right or Christian Right became disenchanted with the movement.Frank Schaeffer, son of the late evangelical hero Francis...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 9, 2008 | Opinion
Once a month, our small editorial staff enjoys a weekend of proofreading. I dropped off a well-marked draft of the April edition of Baptists Today at managing editor Jackie Riley’s house moments ago. Contributing editor Tony Cartledge emailed in more...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 6, 2008 | Opinion
Jim Smith, editor of The Florida Baptist Witness and an unbridled advocate of all things fundamentalist, has amazing gifts beyond the rest of us in this narrow field of Christian journalism. He can even see into the hearts and souls of the thousands of diverse fellow...
