Taking Aim at Baptist Bureaucracies

The Great Commission Task Force report that was overwhelmingly approved by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention on June 15 has its roots in a chapel address given by Southeastern Seminary President Danny Akin in April 2009. In that address, but not in the...

Is God Mad at the Big-Butter Jesus Church?

My trips to Dayton, Ohio, will be different from now on. My favorite marker, a 62-foot statue of Jesus made of wood, Styrofoam and resin in front of Solid Rock Church on Interstate 75, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.   Apparently the statue’s...

Baptist bureaucracies in the bull’s eye

The Great Commission Task Force report that was overwhelmingly approved by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention on June 15 has its roots in an chapel address given by Southeastern Seminary President Danny Akin in April 2009. In that address, but not in the...

Rising Tide of Anxiety Along the Gulf Coast

Out-of-town friends are calling daily and asking questions like: “How are you guys doing with the oil situation?” and “How do the beaches look?” and “What do you expect to happen in the coming weeks?”   Here are my most recent...

Can Reconciliation Begin in the Gaza Strip?

Israel has firmly rejected any idea of an international and independent inquiry into the conduct of the botched raid on the Mavi Marmara. Realistically, it was bound to do so.   However, it has gone as far as it can toward repairing some of the terrible publicity the...