by Robert Parham | Aug 27, 2010 | Opinion
A short man with a neatly trimmed beard told me at the end of the worship service that he didn’t want to go against the Word of God but that he did want me to read a note he had written. He handed me a twice-folded order of worship. I thanked him and placed the...
by Robert Parham | Aug 24, 2010 | Opinion
Separated some 20 years ago, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Southern Baptist Convention have found themselves on parallel tracks, establishing task forces to figure out where to go in the future. While CBF’s newly established “2012 Task...
by Robert Parham | Aug 17, 2010 | Opinion
A five-day environmental meeting at Prague’s International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTS) made the connection between global warming and meat consumption. According to the European Baptist Press (EBP) service, 85 delegates from 23 countries attended the...
by Robert Parham | Aug 13, 2010 | Opinion
Speechifying against building a mosque near Ground Zero has cranked up since Sarah Palin’s tweet three weeks ago that said, “Peace-seeking Muslims, pls understand, Ground Zero mosque is UNNECESSARY provocation; it stabs hearts. Pls reject it in interest of...
by Robert Parham | Aug 6, 2010 | Opinion
What would happen if goodwill Baptists from around the world all studied the same biblical text? I’m waiting to see. For you see, I ascribe to the mustard seed conspiracy. I believe that God is working through 4,000 Baptist leaders, who gathered at the 20th...
