by Robert Parham | Jul 8, 2005 | Opinion
Baptists in America and around the world need to focus their pastoral prayers in worship and prayers of concern in Sunday school on our British neighbors this Sunday. We also need to re-read personally and corporately the Sermon on the Mount, remembering Jesus’...
by Cliff Vaughn | Jul 7, 2005 | Opinion
It’s happened again: Another forehead has been auctioned online as space for a tattooed advertisement. And the tattoo is permanent. Kari Smith, a 30-year-old Utah mother, offered her forehead as advertising space to the highest bidder at online auction site...
by Allen Reasons | Jul 7, 2005 | Opinion
Southern Baptist Conventions were part of my summer schedule for years, until they were no longer home. I then found community in participating in General Assemblies of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Five years ago, I admittedly grieved my formal departure from...
by Britt Towery | Jul 6, 2005 | Opinion
The old Southern Baptist Convention held its annual session last month. The SBC organized in 1845 because Baptists in the North objected to sending missionaries who owned slaves or were supported by slave owners. So, rather than clean up their act and quit owing...
by Gary Farley | Jul 5, 2005 | Opinion
Essayist, poet, novelist, lay theologian and farmer are all descriptive of the life and work of Wendell Berry. For more than 40 years he has lived on and worked a small farm in Kentucky. His roots are generations deep in this place. He knows its soil, its people and...
by Jim Ball | Jul 5, 2005 | Opinion
The old football metaphor “three yards and a cloud of dust” aptly describes the slow but crucial progress recently made in the Senate on having the federal government of the United States seriously address global warming. But why is progress at the federal...
