by Brian Kaylor | Jan 15, 2007 | Opinion
Following the announcement of “Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant,” several Southern Baptist leaders offered their criticism of the planned gathering and argued that Baptists do not have an image problem. Perhaps the SBC leader whose comments were the...
by Doyle Sager | Jan 12, 2007 | Opinion
Many years ago, Baptists reacted against the liturgical emphasis of some church traditions and in the process we threw the baby out with the bath water. We lost the natural cadence of the “Christian calendar.” In place of the church’s holy seasons of...
by Christa Brown | Jan 11, 2007 | Opinion
If a church building had a serious structural problem, leaders would likely call in a foundation expert to inspect the property and advise on appropriate action. But when a Baptist church has a serious problem with its spiritual foundation–when it confronts an...
by Robert Parham | Jan 11, 2007 | Opinion
Baptists are much more than Southern Baptists, who are more southern than Baptist, more exclusive than inclusive, more theocratic than democratic and more negative than positive. The perception of Baptists as the anti-everything people is one reason that good-will...
by Larry Wilson | Jan 11, 2007 | Opinion
Who is Jesus? We have a feeling that Jesus is someone we can choose to accept or choose not to accept. There is heaven or hell to pay, but little else about his life and teaching seems to have real meaning. First and foremost, Jesus is a truth-teller. In our world of...
by Carol Anne Janzen | Jan 10, 2007 | Opinion
Many Christians in the free-church tradition have deep-seated suspicions of ancient church practices such as Lent. There is a widespread belief that the Reformation dispensed with such traditions for a good reason in the effort to “purify” the church....
