by Jeff Woods | Jan 27, 2004 | Opinion
Very few roles allow someone to operate solely as a leader or a manager. Most job descriptions include aspects of both leadership and management. Leaders direct the inputs of an organization while managers direct the outputs. Very few roles, however, deal with one or...
by Mark McEntire | Jan 26, 2004 | Opinion
On a recent Monday night in Nashville, I went to a small music club to hear a performance by a local singer and songwriter named Walt Wilkins. Wilkins played his guitar and sang, accompanied by Tim Lorsch on the fiddle and Mike Daly on the steel guitar, both of whom...
by James L. Evans | Jan 26, 2004 | Opinion
There is growing interest in President Bush’s call for “faith based initiatives.” The idea is to create partnerships between government and religious groups to help people in need. The idea is not entirely new. In 1996 when then President Bill...
by Doug Weaver | Jan 26, 2004 | Opinion
Religious liberty has been a hallmark distinctive in Baptist life. Thomas Helwys, Roger Williams and John Leland are familiar figures in the pantheon of Baptist “heroes” who are known for their support of freedom. At the institutional level, the Baptist...
by Tarris D. Rosell | Jan 23, 2004 | Opinion
The elderly widow cried as she told a visiting pastor about her husband’s death a decade earlier. My morally distressed congregant gave voice to a significant problem in pastoral care and bioethics, arising out of the lived experience of numerous family...
by Jan Turrentine | Jan 23, 2004 | Opinion
Enron’s Andrew and Lea Fastow did it. Pete Rose did it, but he’s sorry (sort of), although he continues to engage in a form of it “recreationally.” Kobe Bryant claims he didn’t do it, but he did do something else he shouldn’t have....
