by John D. Pierce | May 3, 2008 | Opinion
This will be brief. A quick return to writing and editing awaits me. Deadlines know no difference between weekends and weekdays. But I am not complaining.I like the flexibility and challenges of demand-based work over punching a time clock.Yet such a way of living and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 2, 2008 | Opinion
As noted previously, LifeWay Resources’ annual statistical study of the Southern Baptist Convention demonstrated in rather clear fashion that the SBC, which had long defied the trends of mainline denominations by continuing to grow, appears to have peaked and...
by Ed Hogan | May 2, 2008 | Opinion
I recently traveled to Romania, where Buckner International enables churches to give shoes and socks to orphans who live in group homes. Meeting these children to give them humanitarian aid was amazing. Considering the country is less than 20 years removed from the...
by Robert Parham | May 2, 2008 | Opinion
Senator Barack Obama filed divorce papers against Reverend Jeremiah Wright on the grounds of irreconcilable differences one day after his pastor of 20 years appeared at the National Press Club, even though Wright’s substance and style had not really changed....
by John D. Pierce | May 1, 2008 | Opinion
Following the Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s controversial public addresses earlier this week, several television commentators were quick to say that the feisty Chicago preacher had thrown his former parishioner under the bus. Several said it. Several times.Then Sen....
by Mark Johnson | May 1, 2008 | Opinion
“Trespassers Will Be Baptized” is the creative and whimsical title of a new book written by Elizabeth Emerson Hancock Trende, known more affectionately by us at Central Baptist Church as Emy, daughter of Greg and Sharon Hancock. Emy’s book is a...