by Faliku S. Dukuly and Richard Wilson | Dec 2, 2015 | Opinion
The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed three new cases of Ebola on Nov. 20 in Paynesville City, a suburb of Monrovia, Liberia, where the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary (LBTS) has been a presence for nearly four decades. A 15-year-old boy, his brother and...
by James Gordon | Dec 1, 2015 | Opinion
I’ve preached a lot of sermons on or around the theme of love – love of God and love of neighbor. But I’ve never preached on hate. My friend, Stuart Blythe, rector of International Baptist Theological Study Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands, raised...
by Robert Parham | Dec 1, 2015 | Opinion
Lebanon has an estimated 1.2 million Syrian refugees. The United States might permit 12,000 by the end of 2016. Big difference: 1.2 million vs. 12,000. Big difference in actions and attitudes expressed by two Baptists – spiritual and theological kin who share...
by Christina Embree | Nov 30, 2015 | Opinion
Kids raised in religious homes are less generous and kind than those raised in nonreligious homes, according to a recent study. By religious, the report means that the parents identified with a religion (mainly Christianity or Islam), and they measured frequency of...
by Larry Eubanks | Nov 30, 2015 | Opinion
Interpreting Scripture is a wonderfully complicated endeavor because the Bible is a complex compilation of literature. Interpretation is art and science. It’s a craft that takes many years to learn and is never mastered. Beware those who claim to have mastered...
by Nick Lear | Nov 30, 2015 | Opinion
The young adults I worked with during my time as a youth minister all had the same question on their minds. As part of the program that we ran, we would talk with young people about relationships and sex. Every youth wanted to ask the question, but few had the courage...
