by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 20, 2008 | Opinion
Back home in Georgia, when faced with something surprising or unexpected, folks were prone to say “Well shut my mouth!”During an overnight faculty retreat for Campbell University Divinity School (held at Caraway Conference Center), we were challenged (very...
by Ircel Harrison | Aug 20, 2008 | Opinion
On Saturday I met with the Coordinating Council of the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship for the last time. Here are the challenges I presented. In I Chronicles 12: 32, we read about the people of Issachar who “understood the times” and “what...
by Mark McEntire | Aug 20, 2008 | Opinion
Let me confess that I believed from the beginning that the so-called “Faith Forum” held on Aug. 16 at the Saddleback Church in California and hosted by its pastor, Rick Warren, was a bad idea. First, the idea that the two major candidates for president can...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 19, 2008 | Opinion
The best part of the Olympics, for me, has been watching my daughters don goggles and race each other to the other end of the pool and back. They try to mimic Michael Phelp’s powerful turn — which sure beats sedentary staring at a computer screen.Each Olympics...
by Sara Powell | Aug 19, 2008 | Opinion
During the recent conflict between Georgia and Russia, we learned an interesting lesson on the importance of perspective. My husband, one of our daughters and I were hosts to a Russian houseguest. A little background: this particular daughter, a professor, takes a...
by Robert Parham | Aug 19, 2008 | Opinion
Muslims plan to construct over 180 mosques in Germany. The birthplace of the Protestant Reformation, Neo-Orthodoxy, Dietrich Bonheoffer’s Confessing Church and Pope Benedict XVI, it is also the location of almost 1,000 Baptist churches and the Baptist World...
