How conservative can you get?

A professor at Cedarville University may get to keep his job after being fired for apparently pressing for a more conservative agenda than the extremely conservative position officially held by the Baptist college in southwestern Ohio.The school’s doctrinal...

Bonzai guys — and gals

Now that I’m back in chilly North Carolina, I’ll share just a couple more thoughts and photos from sunny Hawaii.On the North Shore of Oahu there are many beautiful beaches and a few really dangerous ones. Perhaps the most notorious is both beautiful and...

BWA hit by falling dollar

I’ve said a lot about various activities associated with the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) Executive Committee meeting in Honolulu this week, but little about the meeting itself. So what did they do? Here’s a synopsis of things I found to be particularly...

For foodies only

For those folks who wonder why it took me awhile to mention food this week, it’s not because I didn’t enjoy it. I ate some interesting things, but few that were quite weird enough to inspire a picture.The Sunday night celebration put on by Hawaii Baptists...

I kinohi hana ke Akua

The Hawaiian language has the shortest alphabet in the world: just seven consonants (h, k, l, m, n, p, and w) and five vowels (a, e, i, o, u). The preponderance of liquid sounds gives it an almost ethereal quality that makes it a joy to hear, or even to read, whether...