by Robert Parham | Jul 23, 2008 | Opinion
Dennis Datta stood at the cutting edge of Baptist moral leadership in 2002, criticizing worldwide Baptists and calling them to support a bold plan to halve global poverty by 2015. The Bangladeshi Baptist leader did so two years before the Baptist World Alliance passed...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 22, 2008 | Opinion
Tuesday July 21 brought the first full day of work for committees, commissions, and workgroups of the Baptist World Alliance, meeting in Prague for its 2008 Annual Gathering.More than 400 global Baptists are here, and most of them made it to the 8:00 a.m. morning...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 22, 2008 | Opinion
Presidential politics can be interesting. The most laughable and least significant report of the week was Focus on the Family leader James Dobson’s pronouncement that he “might” endorse Republican Sen. John McCain.In the words of military veteran...
by Mike Parnell | Jul 22, 2008 | Opinion
It begins with a heist, but in the midst of it we see something of what is to be. “The Dark Knight” is director Christopher Nolan’s second Batman movie (read our review of his “Batman Begins”). It may sound hyperbolic, but this movie is...
by Robert Parham | Jul 22, 2008 | Opinion
Nearly 400 years after the founding of the first Baptist church in Amsterdam by John Smyth and Thomas Helwys, Baptists are still debating the meaning of ordination, a topic that will be considered during six hours of formal presentations and discussions at the Baptist...
by Mike Parnell | Jul 22, 2008 | Opinion
It begins with a heist, but in the midst of it we see something of what is to be. “The Dark Knight” is director Christopher Nolan’s second Batman movie (read our review of his “Batman Begins”). It may sound hyperbolic, but this movie is...
