by Keith Herron | Jul 15, 2008 | Opinion
Like everyone else, I daily receive forwarded e-mail messages from friends and acquaintances. Whenever it says at the bottom, “Pass this along to 10 of your friends and keep this message alive,” I immediately determine I will not pass it along, no matter...
by Keith Herron | Jul 2, 2008 | Opinion
I don’t think there’s anything weirder than religious sexual obsession. Sex is tough enough without layering our obsession about it with some bizarre religious viewpoint. Jim Jones was obsessed with sex. David Koresh couldn’t keep his hands off his...
by Keith Herron | Feb 22, 2008 | Opinion
Like every other Baptist gathered in Atlanta, I was so pleased at the experience from participating in the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant. I was unsure whether to come at first, not knowing what to expect or what to think about what might come of this meeting,...
by Keith Herron | May 4, 2007 | Opinion
This past week, we in Kansas City were forced to take an unblinking look at the emotional toll taken when a deranged man desperately needing psychiatric care picked up a gun and went on a shooting rampage. On a much smaller scale we were drawn into the emotional drama...
by Keith Herron | Apr 2, 2007 | Opinion
When The Kansas City Star published an investigative story a few weeks ago about the secretive financial oversight of one of the Baptist mega-churches in the area, it was as if a bomb went off in the community. The news story reported that several hundred members had...
