by Wade Smith | May 3, 2018 | Opinion
Jesus understood that freedom and truth go hand in hand. In John 8:31-32, Jesus taught his disciples that the “truth will set you free.” Where there is no truth, there is no freedom. And this is true “on earth as it is in heaven.” On earth, the...
by John D. Pierce | May 2, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Having earned perfect attendance Sunday school pins as children and attended two weeks of Vacation Bible School each summer, many of us thought we had learned something about Christian values. We memorized Bible verses like “Love one another” and “Be...
by Drew Herring | May 2, 2018 | Opinion
How do you begin conversations with parishioners and neighbors at home whose minds seemed closed by negative stereotypes of Islam? We Baptists wondered this aloud as we left the third national Baptist-Muslim Dialogue in Green Lake, Wisconsin. We spoke at length about...
by Jonathan Davis | May 2, 2018 | Opinion
I had no idea what to expect when I got off the plane in Wisconsin for the third national Baptist-Muslim Dialogue. I was honored to have been asked to represent a delegation of Baptists for this historic meeting held on April 16-19. After the meeting, I remain...
by John D. Pierce | May 1, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Roswell, New Mexico is best known — or vaguely known, at least — for a 1947 UFO incident, some 75 miles from town, that flooded the area with conspiracy theories rather than green aliens. Some hotels and restaurants along North Main Street still play...
by Rob Sellers | May 1, 2018 | Opinion
Sugar and spice, thunder and lightning, picnics and ants, ocean and waves, washers and dryers, children and laughter, Baptists and Muslims. If you were playing a categories game where you named pairs of items that naturally fit together, you most likely would not...
