by James L. Evans | Jul 12, 2006 | Opinion
Years ago, priest and writer Henri Nouwen was serving as chaplain on a Dutch cruise ship making its way to Rotterdam. They were in a thick fog. Everyone was edgy and nervous as the ship crept along virtually blind in the water. The captain was pacing back and forth,...
by Robert Parham | Jul 11, 2006 | Opinion
MEXICO CITY–The Baptist World Alliance will announce a new general secretary in March 2007, if the search committee sticks to its published time line. BWA General Secretary Denton Lotz announced in March he would not complete his current five-year term. On...
by Joe Phelps | Jul 11, 2006 | Opinion
The committee meeting was running into siesta time in Mexico City, so I was hardly prepared to have the last presenter drop a bomb that blew me away. This choice of analogies drips with historical irony, as Michio Hamano, from the country devastated by atom bombs,...
by Robert Parham | Jul 10, 2006 | Opinion
Global Baptists heard both success stories about national Micah Challenge campaigns and that some union/conventions have accomplished almost nothing meaningful to reduce global poverty by half by 2015. Speaking at the Baptist World Alliance Freedom and Justice Study...
by Robert Parham | Jul 7, 2006 | Opinion
An estimated 64,000 people worldwide will die from AIDS, and 88,000 will be newly infected during the week-long meeting to the Baptist World Alliance in Mexico City, said a presenter in a forum on AIDS/HIV ministries. A program leader said 2006 is the 25th anniversary...
by Gary Farley | Jul 6, 2006 | Opinion
The marquee sign at Dancy First Baptist Church read this past Sunday, “God has blessed our church.” Since early February the sign had read, “Forgive them. They know not what they do.” More than 250 persons gathered at the church to worship and...
