by Wm. Loyd Allen | Nov 22, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Nov. 27, 2002. At the time of publication, Allen was professor of church history and spiritual formation at the James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology. This article was revised on Nov. 22, 2019, to remove a reference...
by Wm. Loyd Allen | Oct 31, 2013 | Opinion
Adoniram Judson lay starving in a filthy Burmese prison cell in 1824. Every night, his guards passed a long bamboo pole between his shackled legs and those of his fellow prisoners and lifted the pole up until only their shoulders and upper torsos touched the...
by Wm. Loyd Allen | Oct 21, 2013 | Opinion
On Oct. 31, 1517, German monk Martin Luther sparked the Protestant Reformation, which changed everything in the West: church, state and society. The Middle Ages swung into the Modern Age on the hinge of the Reformation. Five hundred years later, many say the...
by Wm. Loyd Allen | Mar 4, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Loyd Allen, professor of church history and spiritual formation at McAfee school of Theology in Atlanta, Ga., on March 3, 2009, Psalm 19 To the leader. A Psalm of David. The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his...
by Wm. Loyd Allen | Nov 27, 2002 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article was revised on Nov. 22, 2019, to remove a reference to a 1623 Thanksgiving sermon discovered to be inaccurate by the author upon further research. I once heard a non-Baptist governor’s wife at a Baptist college Thanksgiving...
