by John D. Pierce | Jul 7, 2009 | Opinion
Online editor Bruce Gourley urged me for years to add a blog to the Baptists Today website. He found an ally when Tony Cartledge became a contributing editor.Tony had been blogging as editor of the Biblical Recorder in North Carolina. So he was ready to keep writing...
by Larry Greenfield | Jul 7, 2009 | Opinion
Jesus, I suppose, didn’t think he was retaining his power at the expense of others. In his mind, I’m guessing, he thought he was doing a pretty good job of sharing his power with everyone who asked. After all, according to the first five chapters of...
by Steve Rives | Jul 7, 2009 | Opinion
I wanted to write about the dialogue between Christianity and Islam, but that seemed wrongheaded because I have discovered that I do not dialogue with Islam in the abstract, but with humans in particular. I am a conservative Christian pastor who does door-to-door...
by Drew Smith | Jul 7, 2009 | Opinion
In my last article, I described four misconceptions we often have about being Christian witnesses. As I stated, these are beliefs and methods that many well-meaning believers practice that, in my opinion, are misguided and do not authentically represent what it means...
by Robert Parham | Jul 6, 2009 | Opinion
Hot spots for the seven deadly sins — lust, wrath, envy, sloth, lust, greed, gluttony and pride — overlap much of the Bible Belt. Mississippi is lustful. Georgia is wrathful. North Carolina is envious. South Carolina is prideful. But gluttony flares up in only a few...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Jul 6, 2009 | Opinion
It is a safe bet to state that Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka are perhaps the world’s foremost writers to have expounded on and to have initiated a fictional genre that deals with art and the artist. Each of these writers delved into and expounded on the complex...
