Isolation and irrelevancy

In another deliberate and continuous move toward isolation and irrelevancy, the Georgia Baptist Convention (GBC) approved a policy yesterday that gives leadership the right to reject cooperation with congregations deemed to be out of line with Southern Baptists’...

Fragile freedoms and Baptist Higher Education

During a fellowship dinner sponsored by Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina, Wingate University president Jerry McGee took a cue from Walter Shurden’s famous analysis of Baptist life’s “Four Fragile Freedoms” by suggesting that Baptist Higher Education...

Failed Leaders Create False Gods

Obsessed with his Model T design, Henry Ford permitted no modifications or improvements for twenty years. When his designers surprised him one day with a prototype of an updated model, Ford literally ripped off its doors and proceeded to demolish the car with his bare...

‘Islam in America’

“Islam in America” doesn’t get distracted by the deep-seated fear and hatred that exists between the United States and other parts of the world. No–“Islam in America” is about another Abrahamic faith community on these shores....

…for such a mutt as I

In his first news conference since the election, President-elect Barack Obama responded to reporters’ questions on Monday about the economy, energy, foreign policy and what kind of new puppy would accompany his two daughters to the White House.He concluded his...