by John D. Pierce | Jun 17, 2009 | Opinion
My friend Marshall Kerlin was knelt down in the aisle behind home plate in old Atlanta Stadium on April 8, 1974 when Hank Aaron hit home run #715 to surpass Babe Ruth. I’ve heard about it over and over again for more than 30 years. While I watched it on TV,...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 17, 2009 | Opinion
About halfway through a very intense second week of work building an outdoor patio (see previous blog), both of my hands went nearly numb. I’d done a lot of shoveling, a lot of lifting, a lot of moving heavy objects. While laying the brick floor tiles, I spent a...
by Laura A. Cadena | Jun 17, 2009 | Opinion
I’ve heard the missional church movement referred to as the second reformation, an equator shift, the coming of the “others,” the globalization of the church, the coming of southern Christianity and the list could go on and on. For several years, I...
by Ircel Harrison | Jun 17, 2009 | Opinion
I recently commented that leading a church is an art, not a science. My friend, Jack Mercer in Virginia, reminded me that “organizational leadership of any sort is an art. Max Depree’s observation that leadership was much like improvisational jazz always...
by Michael Ruffin | Jun 17, 2009 | Opinion
My name is Mike – and I’m a moderate. There, I said it and I feel better. I’m a practical moderate. I try to live a moderate lifestyle, doing little to excess – except when I find a dish of real banana pudding. I’m a political moderate; on some...
by Robert Parham | Jun 16, 2009 | Opinion
If the Southern Baptist Convention believes that actions speak louder than words, then its action of having a program of virtually all whites and all males places a big question mark over the convention’s 2009 meeting logo. When the SBC meets in Louisville on...
