Today’s Generation Jettisons Relics of Ministries Past

My 19-year-old daughter, Leslie, and 17 of her friends from Baylor recently boarded a jet bound for Uganda to minister alongside a group called Favour of God in remote villages outside of Gulu. This experienced mission team of students is a ministry product of Antioch...

Pulling the Plug: Distorting Health-Care Reform

Fear over end-of-life counseling and refusal of care for persons with physical or mental disabilities have become major issues in the current health-care debate. These fears arise from misrepresentation of a paragraph in the most frequently mentioned bill and of two...

Mind over matter

During one of her physical therapy visits in this sticky-hot summer weather of central Georgia, my wife entered a home without air conditioning. The patient, an older woman, was relaxing on the sofa as Christmas music played in the background.”Did it...

Clergy Letter Project: Science, Bible Can Co-Exist

The Clergy Letter Project began in 2004 when Michael Zimmerman, a biologist, along with several clergy in Wisconsin, became alarmed about a series of anti-evolution policies passed by the school board in Grantsburg. Scientists and clergy, working together, issued a...

Steeple Chase: Sparrow’s Lesson in Beating the Odds

Early on a Sunday morning, while the sun was new in the sky and shadows were fast disappearing, I noticed a mysterious shape on the far side of the cross atop our church’s steeple. As I exited my car and began walking across the parking lot, the dark mass took...

Can Baptists Learn to Perpetually Adore Jesus?

Roman Catholics in Boston now have the opportunity to participate in the revival of a centuries-old practice, something called the Ritual of Perpetual Adoration. It’s pretty simple and self-explanatory: hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month...