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Learning Through Life’s Sufferings
There are those who justify suffering as part of what contributes to making strong character. Many fine writers have written from this viewpoint ”that there is value in the troubles, sorrows and traumas we encounter....
“The Wrestler”
I had heard that Mickey Rourke gives the performance of a lifetime in this movie. What I found was much more. “The Wrestler” presents Rourke, who plays washed-up wrestler Randy “The Ram” Robinson, as a Christ figure....
‘Master builder for God’ remembered simply
Hundreds gathered today (Feb. 4) beneath the pecan trees of the once highly-controversial Koinonia Farms near Americus, Ga., to bury and honor Habitat for Humanity International founder Millard Fuller who unexpectedly...
Yard ornament with a past
She inherited the old stone jar from an aunt and didn't know what else to do with it, so she put it in the yard as a garden ornament. After 20 years, however, she decided to clean it up and have it appraised.It turns...
Committing
Sermon delivered by Dock Hollingsworth, assistant dean and instructor of supervised ministry at McAfee School of Theology in Atlanta, Ga., on Feb. 3, 2009. Matthew 3:13-17 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the...
Appeals Court Rules Against Mo. Convention
An appeals court ruled against the Missouri Baptist Convention Tuesday in the MBC’s six-year legal battle against five state ministry organizations. The Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals released...
MLK and the Missional Church
If Martin Luther King, Jr. were alive today, what would he say to the growing missional church movement? First, I imagine Dr. King would say, "Well done." Throughout his ministry, King called the church to be socially...
What $206 Million Buys
Sixty-five commercials during Super Bowl XLIII. That means, on average, each ad you saw during the game on NBC cost $3.1 million. Man ... we Americans are an expensive date! While our Congress debates a $900-billion...
Enjoy the New Day for Ethics
Our new Web site means a new day for ethics. Be assured that we retain our fidelity to the centrality of Christ in moral discernment and our faithfulness to the biblical witness. We remain dedicated to seeking justice...
Millard Fuller at rest
Founder of Habitat for Humanity International and the Fuller Center for Housing, Millard Fuller died early this morning at age 74. Pray for his wife, Linda, and children, Chris, Kim, Faith and Georgia, and all the...
Bumbling along
My daughter and I contributed to the strong second-place finish for the film "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" this weekend. That ranking comes on the heels of two straight weekends as the top-ranked movie.Some church friends had...
Faith and Politics
For more than 25 years, the Christian Right has carefully constructed a political myth claiming that “GOP” stands for “God’s Only Party.” Conservative Christians quickly bought into the myth. The New York Times in...
Global Poverty
We Christians too often read the Bible selectively about the poor, the hungry, the dispossessed, the foreigner and the weak. Consequently, we have at best a short-term commitment to their well-being. We sometimes...
Baptists and Racism
Baptists have a long and storied history on the issue of race and racism. The Southern Baptist Convention was founded in 1845 largely over the issue of slavery. Northern Baptists favored the abolition of slavery,...
Baptists Show Unity at Birmingham New Baptist Covenant Event Featuring President Carter
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CBF) -- More than 1,000 people gathered in Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 31 for the first regional gathering of the New Baptist Covenant. The event, which was held at the historic 16th Street Baptist Church,...
Face to Facebook with Jesus
Founded by a Harvard University student in a dorm room five years ago this week, Facebook.com, or simply "Facebook," has become an Internet social networking phenomenon with over 150 million active users worldwide--and...
“Gran Torino”
I do not think “Gran Torino” is Clint Eastwood's best film. It is not even the best of the ones I have seen, and I have not seen all of them. His turn in “The Outlaw Josie Wales” is a favorite of mine, but “Unforgiven”...
˜The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable’
The Black Swan is the third book I've read this year, and it will probably be the meatiest tome I take on for 2009. I picked it up after two friends recommended it, people who live two very different lives. So, I...
Why Don’t Progressive Churches Do Evangelism?
One of the oddest ironies of contemporary Christianity in America is the inability ”or unwillingness ”of progressive churches to evangelize. These are the churches with the most excellent values of inclusiveness and...
The Israeli-Palestinian Debate
One of the most disturbing wars in history began with British protectorate rule over Palestine. Begun in the 1920s, the "Holy Land" war continues between Arabs and Jews to this day. With such tremendous hatred for one...
Don’t copy! (copied)
What's the easiest way for a university to come up with a good written policy on plagiarism?You plagiarize someone else's statement.Hard to believe, but true.I first saw the story in the online Chronicle of Higher...