If Apple was in charge …

Yesterday I braved the iPhone-crazy crowds in Raleigh’s Apple Store to pick up my three-year-old MacBook, which I’d taken in for repairs less than a week before my “Apple Care” extended warranty ran out.I’d made a “Time...

Baptizing Children Raised in Same-Sex Households

When Newsweek’s religion editor Lisa Miller called about where Baptists stand on baptizing children raised in same-sex households, I finally had an opportunity to say that this is one issue where Baptists — all Baptists — get it right theologically. I said that...

Baptists and children

I’ve been stewing for the past week over the proposed idea that Baptists should combat falling baptism numbers, at least in part, by having more children. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Al Mohler has long blogged concerns about the trend toward...