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Did Land Write His Apology for Racially Charged Remarks?
Did Southern Baptist Convention agency head Richard Land write the apology statement for racially charged remarks issued under his name, or was it written by African-American Baptist clergy? When EthicsDaily.com asked...
7 Ways to Detect Any Type of Fundamentalist
Fundamentalists always concern me – and I'm not simply thinking about the Christian fundamentalists – so do Jewish, Muslim and any other type of religious fundamentalist. Historically, much of the world's blood was...
Shorter University: From Education to Indoctrination
The struggles at ShorterUniversity in Rome, Ga., were highlighted in the WashingtonPost this weekend, as the number of professors and administrators leaving the school continues to climb. Known as Shorter College for...
15 Characteristics of Great Church Leaders
A few days ago I had the opportunity to participate in a leadership conference with Greg Jones, former dean of Duke Divinity School, and John Upton, president of the Baptist World Alliance and the Virginia Baptist...
Texting While Driving: An Ethical Decision?
A couple of years ago, I was working at a camp in Macon, Ga., and it was the weekend. A group of friends from our team decided to attend an Atlanta Braves game for the night. On our way home from the game, we got stuck...
Buy Your Ethics Luncheon Ticket Now, Prices Set to Increase
Ticket prices are set to increase on May 31 for the annual ethics luncheon during the General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, held this year in Fort Worth, Texas. Hosted by the Baptist Center for Ethics...
Brains in chains
The struggles at Shorter University in Rome, Ga. were highlightd in the Washington Post this weekend, as the number of professors and administrators leaving the school continues to climb. Known as Shorter College for...
Women in Ministry Stepping Out of Shadows
Women in ministry, long kept in the shadows by many Baptist churches and organizations, surged into the spotlight recently. The reflections on a cultural shift took many shapes and forms at the Cooperative Baptist...
Reel Church Explores Spirituality Through Film
Film offers one way of relating spiritual matters to popular culture – and it might just be forming the beginnings of a new missional church in Great Britain. About 130 miles northwest of London, Hereford Baptist...
Prison Issue Creates Convergence of Unlikely Parties
Prison reform has captured headlines, triggered partly by the death of Watergate figure Chuck Colson, who founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, but mostly by legislative actions at the state level. Social justice...
Flower power
Flowers are amazing things. I took lots of biology courses, so I know that flowers play a variety of important roles in the life of plants, especially related to reproduction. Fragrance, color, shape, and size all work...
Your U.S. Representative May Be a Heretic
Let's call it what it is. It's heresy. Now, to be sure, this charge applies only to confessing followers of Jesus Christ who are serving as representatives in the U.S. Congress. That is, the charge can't apply to...
Faith’s Slow Retreat into Irrelevance
In 1981, Langdon Gilkey, professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, found himself embroiled in a church/state battle in Arkansas that would eventually be known as McLean v. the Arkansas Board...
Interfaith Voices: Good Will is an Asset
Some business leaders get it. Some church leaders do not. Some civic leaders get it. Some elected officials do not. Progress is hard, if not impossible, without good will. Interfaith Montgomery, reflecting a wholesome...
A Soul Restored
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on April 29, 2012. Psalm 23 We live in a time when the existence of our souls is anything but obvious. To speak of the human soul...
Very Good and Pleasant
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on April 15, 2012. Psalm 133 During the retreat yesterday, one of our members spoke privately to me and then later publicly to...
One Weird Ending
A sermon delivered by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, Nc., on April 8, 2012 Mark 16:1-8 I’m guessing most of us here today have been hearing about Easter since we were in diapers. So I know...
The Yoke of Friendship
A sermon delivered by Keith Herron, Pastor, Holmeswood Baptist Church, Kansas City, Mo., on May 13, 2012. John 15:9-17 Fred Craddock was surprisingly late in life before he first preached a sermon on this text. One...
Birth, Faith, and Victory
A sermon delivered by Wendell Griffen, Pastor New Millennium Church, Little Rock, Ark., on May 13, 2012. 1 John 5:1-6 1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the...
Even on the Gentiles
A sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark., on May 13, 2012. Psalm 98:1-9; Acts 10:44-48 And so it begins. For months now, we have been planning and anticipating our...
Loving the Impossible
A sermon delivered by Joel Snider, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Rome, Ga., on May 13, 2012. Philippians 4:10-13 Morning Prayer: O Loving God, we pray today for all mothers everywhere. We pray blessing upon mothers...