by Ryon Price | Jul 24, 2009 | Opinion
Summer is in full swing and that means the church has empty pews – and lots of them. Some six million mainline Protestants have gone on summer vacation since 1965 and haven’t come back. That’s right, six million members are missing. And we’re not...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 23, 2009 | Opinion
Last night I shared with the congregation of Vineville Baptist Church in Macon, Ga., about the significant contributions of early Baptist leader Roger Williams. It was the first in a series of Wednesday evening presentations I will give over the next few weeks in...
by Wendell Griffen | Jul 23, 2009 | Opinion
Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard University history professor and director of Harvard’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research, was arrested July 16 on a charge of disorderly conduct. Someone phoned the Cambridge (Mass.) Police...
by Drew Smith | Jul 23, 2009 | Opinion
How did a movement that began with a rugged band of first-century Jewish peasants eventually become the largest institutional religion in the world? How did the followers of Jesus move from meeting in homes to building extravagant cathedrals, worship centers and...
by Monty Self | Jul 23, 2009 | Opinion
The battle is on and it has been on. For most of us who grew up in an evangelical tradition, it dates back to the evolution-fundamentalist controversy at the turn of the 20th century. Today, many refer to it as “the culture wars.” In its contemporary...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 22, 2009 | Opinion
It was 40 years ago this week that two earthlings first set foot on the moon, and every media outlet worth its salt has done some sort of retrospective about it. Most end with the question of where we go from here: former president Bush announced plans for a return to...
