by Rob Sellers | May 1, 2018 | Opinion
Sugar and spice, thunder and lightning, picnics and ants, ocean and waves, washers and dryers, children and laughter, Baptists and Muslims. If you were playing a categories game where you named pairs of items that naturally fit together, you most likely would not...
by Rob Sellers | Nov 8, 2011 | Opinion
Many persons feel they “know” Baptists as a group because of the unkind words of a few Baptist individuals or denominations. Indeed, some very public Baptists have made statements highly offensive to persons of other faiths – and, perhaps surprisingly,...
by Rob Sellers | Nov 3, 2011 | Opinion
On May 16, 1920, on the east steps of the capitol building in Washington, D.C., a historic speech was delivered to some 15,000 people, many of them Baptists. The speaker was George W. Truett, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas. His speech was titled...
by Rob Sellers | Jul 20, 2009 | Opinion
We no longer need to travel internationally to encounter Muslims. In the United States, Muslims are living in our neighborhoods and working in our cities. Like our ancestors who emigrated from many lands, this growing population segment belongs among us, for they too...
by Rob Sellers | Sep 3, 2008 | Opinion
Monday morning, Sept. 1, I left my hotel in Columbus, Ohio, before daybreak. The weekend at the annual convention of the Islamic Society of North America had been eventful and full. Not really expecting there to be anyone ”or any food ”in the breakfast room at such an...
