by John Baker | Dec 27, 2005 | Opinion
Our church has long sought to preach the gospel and put it into practice locally and around the world. Putting it into practice, which is the core of Christian ethics, has always been the harder part. We were looking for an overarching umbrella—or missional...
by Mark McEntire | Dec 27, 2005 | Opinion
The other volumes in the Westminster John Knox “Gospel According to…” series (the Simpsons, Tolkien, Disney, Oprah) have all had more focused subjects than David Dark’s “The Gospel According to America: A Meditation on a God-blessed,...
by John E. Roberts | Dec 27, 2005 | Opinion
In September I took time off from my duties as an associate scholar at the Institute for Christian/Jewish Studies to represent the Alliance of Baptists along with 15 other Jewish and Christian leaders. We represented various religious communities in a peace mission to...
by Fred Guttman | Dec 26, 2005 | Opinion
The recently released film “Bee Season,” based on the book by Myla Goldberg, is in many ways an extraordinary movie. I do not ever remember seeing a popular film that was based so much on Kabbalah or Jewish mysticism. The story is quite simple. Eliza, an...
by Jim Huff | Dec 26, 2005 | Opinion
I consider honesty a core value of the Christian faith: honesty with God, honesty with myself and certainly honesty with other people. It has been my experience that the “intelligent design” supporters are not being honest with me, the state legislature or...
by Courtney Hodges | Dec 26, 2005 | Opinion
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina churches reached across racial, religious and geographical lines to express God’s love to hurricane survivors in Southeast Louisiana. Lloyd Braswell, pastor of Hope Valley Baptist Church in Durham, called and...
