by Sue Smith | Mar 27, 2017 | Opinion
How do you feel when your parents migrate to the U.S. and leave you behind? This wasn’t an easy question for students to answer in El Salvador. Seven of us, all Baptists, visited an inner-city high school, Instituto Isaac Newton, located in the heart of San...
by Joe LaGuardia | Mar 27, 2017 | Opinion
Faith communities make a positive impact in supporting caregivers. In a recent joint effort by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and RTI International, researchers explored five interfaith communities that provide care for loved ones suffering with...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 25, 2017 | Opinion
Woman’s Missionary Union (WMU) has been about missions from the beginning, and that has not changed. As always, missions was at the forefront as more than 600 North Carolina Baptist women and other guests gathered at First Baptist Church of Greensboro March...
by Michael Parnell | Mar 24, 2017 | Opinion
What does one do with a grief that is not normal? By not normal, I mean a grief that comes as the result of a heinous crime or tragedy. “The Shack,” based on the novel by William Paul Young, tells the story of a father who lost a child to a predator....
by Jon Kuhrt | Mar 24, 2017 | Opinion
Churches are on the front line of responding to homelessness because of how often people call on their doors asking for money. I grew up in a vicarage and homeless people (or “tramps” as we called them) used to come to our door to ask for help. My mom...
by Colin Harris | Mar 23, 2017 | Opinion
Efforts to protect national security by restricting the entrance of persons from other countries have long been used as examples of a lack of the kind of hospitality that is called for in both our American heritage and in the biblical perspective on the significance...
