by Sean McKenzie | Oct 30, 2007 | Opinion
Over and over in the Old Testament, we are admonished to be kind to “the widow, the orphan, and alien.” In the New Testament Christ admonishes us to welcome the stranger: “When I was a stranger you took me in ¦whatever you do for the least of these...
by Aidsand F. Wright-Riggins | Oct 30, 2007 | Opinion
In the late 1970s, I was a not-yet-30-year-old pastor with four or five years of grassroots ordained experience under my belt. I was serving a congregation of fewer than 50 members in south-central Los Angeles, in a converted restaurant located in a community whose...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 29, 2007 | Opinion
While compiling research for an article about independent Baptists, I came to realize that there would be far fewer independents if J. Frank Norris had been as successful as his spiritual heirs have been.The independent Baptist movement was a direct outgrowth of the...
by Marvin A. McMickle | Oct 29, 2007 | Opinion
There have never been many of them, but every now and then God manages to refresh the earth in general and the faith community in particular with the presence and the preaching of a prophet. I am not referring to some soothsayer who claims to be able to predict the...
by Britt Towery | Oct 29, 2007 | Opinion
The last few weeks I have noticed even less attention paid to Iraq in the newspapers and on the cable news channels. Then along came Thomas L. Friedman in this Wednesday’s column in the New York Times titled “Remember Iraq.”After mentioning how all...
by James L. Evans | Oct 29, 2007 | Opinion
A Web-based group calling themselves TopVerse.com recently conducted a survey asking Christians to identify their favorite verses. The reason for the survey was to speed up an online search feature offered at the site. The survey generated not only a list of favorite...
