by Larry Greenfield | Jan 6, 2011 | Opinion
For the first time in U.S. history, the nation’s House of Representatives will begin its new session with a complete oral reading of our country’s Constitution. Great idea! I don’t have a clue why this hasn’t happened before, not just in the...
by Bill Wilson | Jan 6, 2011 | Opinion
On the threshold of a new decade in our new millennium, there is a pervasive mood among God’s people: uncertainty. We hear it weekly from clergy and laity alike, usually around a specific concern regarding employment or finances or conflict or planning. There is...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 6, 2011 | Opinion
TravelBlog 4 – Belize I’m teaching at the Baptist Bible School of Belize at the Baptist Training Center in Camalote this week. The school was developed by Baptists from North Carolina and continues to be supported by First Baptist Church of Lexington and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 5, 2011 | Opinion
Travelblog 3 – Belize When I first arrived at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1979, I fell so in love with the education I was receiving there that I felt as if I were in Camelot, King Arthur’s mythical kingdom. The Baptist Bible School...
by Ken Sehested | Jan 5, 2011 | Opinion
There are three versions of what Epiphany (“Manifestation”) is meant to commemorate in the church’s calendar. One of those traditions celebrates Jesus’ baptism on Jan. 6. Another tradition links Epiphany Sunday with the birth of Jesus. Yet...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 5, 2011 | Opinion
Democrats’ spineless attempts to pass comprehensive immigration reform when they controlled the Congress – coupled with the prevailing racist Latino-phobia demonstrated by incoming Republican House committee chairs – mean that Latinas and Latinos will be facing...
