by Richard Wilson | Dec 8, 2006 | Opinion
To speak in favor of peace always is to find a dissenting voice. There are in our generation peace protests and war rallies. World-wide more encourage war than protest for peace. Things have not changed much. Even casual observers of history–all of human...
by Charles W. Deweese | Dec 7, 2006 | Opinion
Controversy can erupt at any time in a Baptist church, association, convention, fellowship, alliance, federation or union. In fact, Baptists have experienced crises at all these levels. Given the democratic nature of Baptist polity (and efforts to override that...
by Cliff Vaughn | Dec 6, 2006 | Opinion
“Rocky Balboa,” the sixth and allegedly final installment in the “Rocky” franchise, hits theaters Dec. 22, and the filmmakers have wasted no time courting religious America for the release. MGM has enlisted Motive Entertainment to help market...
by Larry Wilson | Dec 6, 2006 | Opinion
This past Christmas season, folks on the Fox network prompted alarm among some churches because Wal-Mart and other retailers were greeting people with “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” Some seemed to think that we are in grave...
by Michael Westmoreland-White | Dec 5, 2006 | Opinion
A popular contemporary stereotype is that Christians concerned with global evangelism and missions are tone deaf to questions of social justice, and those concerned with the latter have no evangelistic or missionary impulses. In fact, in Anabaptist and Baptist...
by Keith Herron | Dec 5, 2006 | Opinion
North Carolina Baptists have trumped Missourians over who can exclude whom. A few weeks ago, the Missouri Baptist Convention dismissed 19 churches from its ranks for not being exclusively (singly) aligned with the Southern Baptist Convention. Meanwhile, the Baptist...
