by John D. Pierce | Jul 10, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Though both Georgia boys who attended seminary at the same time and place, Tony Cartledge and I didn’t get acquainted until we both backed into second or third careers. (Tony taught school briefly before becoming a pastor.) Though latecomers to the...
by Bill and Michelle Cayard | Jul 10, 2017 | Opinion
Accurate statistics for how many Christians there are in China are hard to come by. Estimates vary widely from the official number of 40 million to unofficial estimates of more than 100 million. Regardless of the numbers, there are not nearly enough trained ministers...
by James Gordon | Jul 10, 2017 | Opinion
Among my many books, and settled on my many shelves, are a number of writers whose work is a balm in Gilead – a tonic for the creeping weariness of spirits jaded by a world too much in our faces. Isaiah wrote some of his greatest poetry to a people in exile,...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 7, 2017 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce Fundamentalism involves attitudes and resulting behaviors as well as beliefs. That most-helpful insight was clarified for me years ago when reading the thorough and thoughtful theological treatment of the subject by Fisher Humphreys and the late...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 7, 2017 | Opinion
During its 2017 Annual Gathering, held July 3-7 in Bangkok, Thailand, the Baptist World Alliance: HONORED Neville Callam of Jamaica for his ten years of service as General Secretary of the BWA. Callam was elected at the 2006 Annual Gathering in Accra, Ghana, and will...
by Dennis Bickers | Jul 7, 2017 | Opinion
I served as the bivocational pastor of a church in my hometown for 20 years. After being called as a resource minister with the American Baptist Churches of Indiana and Kentucky, I worked with numerous bivocational churches. Prior to retiring from that role, we began...
