by Robert Parham | Feb 17, 2010 | Opinion
American Christianity has been prosperity Christianity with faith flourishing in the good times. So said an unassuming gray-haired man with a mustache and face etched by study and the struggle for social justice. The man – Wayne Flynt – is known as the conscience of...
by Mark Johnson | Feb 17, 2010 | Opinion
Why would Baptists practice Lent? Isn’t it too close to an idea of “works righteousness,” trying to earn the salvation that we teach is a gift of God’s grace to be received only by faith? Shouldn’t our time be focused on sharing this...
by Scott C. Sabin | Feb 17, 2010 | Opinion
One evening in the early days of our work in Haiti, several of us sat on the front porch of a guesthouse in Grand Colline, a mountainous region in southern Haiti, exchanging stories and watching fireflies. Pere Albert, the Haitian Episcopal priest with whom we...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 17, 2010 | Opinion
Perhaps you have heard of the Assyrian king Sennacherib, who invaded Judah and besieged Jerusalem in 701 B.C. On a six-sided clay prism inscribed in cuneiform known as “The Annals of Sennacherib,” he claimed to have destroyed 46 fortified cities, taken...
by Kimble Forrister | Feb 16, 2010 | Opinion
It’s curious how a recession affects different people in different ways. If you and the people you know are still employed, your life may bump along pretty well, except for the depressing reports on your retirement fund. But it’s different if you know...
by William Brackney | Feb 16, 2010 | Opinion
Currently, there is a searching debate over the issue of whether universities that are religious in orientation and have a statement of religious beliefs and values can provide a satisfactory environment of academic freedom. This is not new territory for Baptist...
