by Cliff Vaughn | May 7, 2003 | Opinion
The current generation of Baptist pastors didn’t grow up with “minister mothers”—at least in the formal sense—but that’s not to say that mothers didn’t influence their vocational choice.Jeff Rogers, pastor of First Baptist Church in...
by Cliff Vaughn | May 7, 2003 | Opinion
The history of today’s Mother’s Day celebration is like a rope woven from separate strands and different fibers. The history of today’s Mother’s Day celebration is like a rope woven from separate strands and different fibers. Those fibers...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 7, 2003 | Opinion
A recent letter from International Mission Board President Jerry Rankin gave a few remaining holdout Southern Baptist Convention missionaries an ultimatum that finally spelled out what most folks have assumed all along. Failure to sign a statement affirming the 2000...
by Ron Sisk | May 5, 2003 | Opinion
My pastor never preached on the war at all. As a congregation, we prayed for peace. We prayed for safety for our military folk. We prayed for the Iraqi people. We prayed for the president and other world leaders. But, beyond recognizing the heightened anxiety in which...
by Brent McDougal | May 4, 2003 | Opinion
In recent months, leaders including Trent Lott, Rick Santorum and State Senator David Fowler of Tennessee have drawn criticism for off-the-cuff remarks relative to race, poverty and homosexuality. Some remarks were defended, some denied, some apologized for, some...
by Mike Parnell | May 2, 2003 | Opinion
“Bulletproof Monk” is another entry in the long line of comics-based movies. The problem with “Monk” is that it’s like a Chinese dinner: You take one thing from column A, another from column B and yet another from column C to make a meal...
