by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 31, 2009 | Opinion
Last week I had a chance to visit Oak Ranch, a 755 acre residential facility operated by North Carolina Baptist Children’s Homes (BCH). We’ll have a feature on Oak Ranch in the North Carolina edition of the October Baptists Today.Oak Ranch, located on the...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 29, 2009 | Opinion
Someone at prophecies.org has revealed the staggering news that (drum roll, please) President Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ.This insight will require some rethinking on my part. At a McDonald’s in Rome, Ga., in 1980, a man explained to me that it was Ronald...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 28, 2009 | Opinion
About a week ago, I got to serve as chief cook and bottle washer for a poverty immersion experience that my wife Jan led in downtown Raleigh. One of the activities involves a meal at which participants draw popsicle sticks to be assigned to a country, and are served a...
by Chuck Warnock | Aug 28, 2009 | Opinion
I first saw it on Twitter – “Big differences in what small churches believe vs. big churches” – or something like that. Then, I saw it again a couple of days later. So I clicked the link and found myself staring at a Barna Group survey turned into a nice...
by James L. Evans | Aug 28, 2009 | Opinion
In 1970, evangelical author Hal Lindsey penned a book that became a staple of Christian end-time table talk. The title said it all: “The Late Great Planet Earth.” In this book, Lindsey laid out the now all-too-familiar scheme of end-time paranoia, which...
by Trey Lyon | Aug 28, 2009 | Opinion
“One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. We must not remember that Daniel Webster got drunk but only that he was a splendid constitutional lawyer. We must forget that George...
