by Cliff Vaughn | Aug 24, 2007 | Opinion
The new movie “September Dawn” dramatizes an 1857 event known as the Mountain Meadows Massacre in which 120 men, women and children—heading from Missouri to California—were killed in cold blood by a raiding party of Mormons in the Utah territory....
by John D. Pierce | Aug 23, 2007 | Opinion
News that longtime Independent Baptist leader Lee Roberson died this spring at age 97 got by me somehow. At the discussion forum BaptistLife.com, Alabamian Mark Ray rightly chided the Baptist media for not picking up on this story. Mark is correct, and I feel...
by Todd Lake | Aug 23, 2007 | Opinion
N. T. Wright, the great New Testament scholar and Bishop of Durham, England, tells of a fellow bishop who said, “Why is it when St. Paul went into a town they had a riot, but when I go to a town they have me for tea?” That is the question confronting the...
by Robert Parham | Aug 22, 2007 | Opinion
Numbers are chilling. Challenges are constant. Reports are recurring. Causes are clear. Solutions are settled. So, why aren’t we doing more about global hunger? Opportunities for engagement are overflowing. Organizations are plentiful with diverse approaches....
by Marty Bell | Aug 22, 2007 | Opinion
“But the truth is, there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at Zarephath in Sidon. There...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Aug 21, 2007 | Opinion
Woman’s Missionary Union of North Carolina (WMU NC) is looking for a new place to live following an August 16 vote by its executive board that was made public August 21 after a meeting between WMU NC executive director Ruby Fulbright and Baptist State Convention...
