by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 3, 2008 | Opinion
You heard it here first: the acclaimed Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences was scheduled to close December 28, but a museum official has told me that the Israel Antiquities Authority has given permission for the exhibit to remain...
by Bill Wilson | Dec 3, 2008 | Opinion
A smooth transition sends clear messages about the health and future of the group, while a rocky transition can handicap the new leader and set the group or organization back significantly. We need to be deliberate and biblical about leadership transitions. Anywhere...
by Robert Parham | Dec 3, 2008 | Opinion
When we now listen to the religious minority’s stories of injury and insult, we take the first step toward religious reformation. Awareness births empathy–empathy births a passion for righteousness. At least, that’s the way goodwill Baptists ought to...
by John D. Pierce | Dec 2, 2008 | Opinion
If you went to school in the ’70s, loved Jesus, and your parents complained about your hair — then you likely heard the Pat Terry Group perform such groundbreaking Christian music as “Same Sweet Song,” “Meet Me Here” or “I...
by Robert Parham | Dec 2, 2008 | Opinion
Violence is the byproduct of religion plus politics, not religion alone. Even if one could imagine a world without religion, one can hardly imagine a world without politics. The striving for power surely deserves as much credit for the recent riots in Jos, Nigeria, as...
by Dwight A. Moody | Dec 2, 2008 | Opinion
There has been significant erosion in the conviction that preaching is a vocation of significance, that it is an avenue of influence in the world. So, intelligent, talented and passionate young people are turning away from preaching toward careers as worship artists,...