Where Should Baptists Go in the 21st Century?

My reflection on the future of Baptists is rooted in my particular experience of life in the Baptist world in the southeastern United States. I have been connected to Baptist life since I was born. The men and women in my family, going back several generations, have...

Celebrity Support That Gets It Right in Africa

Longtime readers know that I am very cynical about celebrity advocacy in general. My eyes glaze over when I see a link to a story about whichever starlet that John Prendergast is courting to “be a voice for Darfur” or a heartwarming 60 Minutes segment...

Will students sacrifice this time around?

Religion News Service is reporting that a meeting of college students is set for Oct. 8-11 at Atlanta’s Morehouse College to relaunch an effort that helped bring about significant social change long ago. The U.S. Student Christian Movement, that has not be...

Young Ministers Speak to the Baptist Future

Where do younger ministers think Baptists should head in the 21st century?   Yesterday’s editorial disclosed what a handful of seasoned, global Baptist leaders and thinkers say about the future. One shared that Baptists ought to recapture the radical nature of...

“Inception”

“Inception” is another sterling example of why Christopher Nolan is one of the great film directors of our time and maybe any time.   It is a movie that plays on so many levels of our senses. It is visual, but it also plays on sense of smell as we smell...

What It Takes To Understand God’s Forgiveness

In Luke’s version of Jesus giving the disciples a model of how to pray to God, the itinerant rabbi seems to assume – for that particular society in which he proclaimed and demonstrated the coming reign of God – an understanding of humanity’s moral...