by Mark Woods | Jul 30, 2009 | Opinion
To hear some Christians talk, it would appear the church in contemporary Britain is under attack from every side. If that is so, why the surprise? Christianity began with a man under fire. So did the Baptist cause. Four hundred years ago the early British Baptists...
by James L. Evans | Jul 30, 2009 | Opinion
The clock is ticking on President Obama’s health care reform plan, and not necessarily in his favor. The inertia in this session of Congress regarding any health care reform bill is evident and bipartisan. Surprisingly, however, there has appeared a strong...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 29, 2009 | Opinion
As global Baptists celebrate 400 years of history during the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) annual gathering in Ede, the Netherlands, two special sessions highlighted significant markers of Baptist life in the BWA’s six regions. Americans tend to be so insular that I...
by Robert Parham | Jul 28, 2009 | Opinion
The human embryo is a human being with moral status whether in a test tube or a woman’s womb and deserves enough respect not to be destroyed for its stem cells, argued a philosophy professor in an academic paper presented at the Baptist World Alliance meeting in...
by Roger Thomas | Jul 28, 2009 | Opinion
In the midst of all the explosions, floating houses and pubescent wizards, there is a smaller, more intimate film making its way through the multiplex this summer. “Away We Go” is one of the best discoveries to be found playing in a theater near you. The...
by Larry Greenfield | Jul 28, 2009 | Opinion
The theologian who wrote the Gospel of John was clearly trying to cover a lot of bases. So the reader can assume that there’s probably not just one point going on in any one text, but several. By now, in the history of biblical interpretation, it’s taken...
