by John D. Pierce | Feb 12, 2018 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Last week the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) staked out some new ground after years of growing resistance to its no-gays hiring policy — approved in 2000 in response to growing threats of funding withdrawal from churches desiring formal action...
by Steve Wells | Feb 12, 2018 | Opinion
For 25 years, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) has known a unity born of cooperation. That is, we have not been a like-minded Fellowship; we have been a shared-task Fellowship. Our Fellowship is the fruit of a partnership to send missionaries, provide...
by Jerry A. Hudson | Feb 12, 2018 | Opinion
There are many professing believers who claim Jesus as Lord, but few who want to follow his counterintuitive teachings on living spiritually in the world. The directives Jesus gives his followers are no more specific than in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7). Yet,...
by Reggie Warren | Feb 9, 2018 | Opinion
When it comes down to actually doing it, the devil is in the details. This seems to be the central challenge amid a lot of talk in Washington, D.C., these days about the importance of compromise as well as assurances on many sides that it is necessary and possible....
by Michael Ruffin | Feb 9, 2018 | Opinion
We’ve lost three U.S. astronauts in recent months. Paul Weitz died on Oct. 22, 2017. He piloted Skylab II, which was the first manned mission to the first U.S. space station, in 1973. He was also the pilot for the first flight of the space shuttle Challenger in...
by Guy Sayles | Feb 9, 2018 | Opinion
Character is the primary arena of change. We can’t change the DNA we inherited, the circumstances into which we were born, the families that shaped and misshaped us, or the wounding events we’ve undergone. Some things about our bodies, temperaments and...
