by Robert Parham | Aug 4, 2015 | Opinion
The Baptist World Congress was a splendid overall success, despite lower than desired attendance due to fears of Ebola and xenophobia in South Africa toward other foreign workers. The fellowship was warm. The worship was energizing. The workshops were substantive. The...
by James Gordon | Aug 3, 2015 | Opinion
We are well on our way to losing any conception of education as humanizing gift, social capital, cultural treasury, creative possibility for the future, imaginative empowerment of the minds, affections and commitments of the recent and coming generations of pupils and...
by Mark Tidsworth | Aug 3, 2015 | Opinion
“Be afraid; be very, very afraid.” This was the message I heard as I listened to a sermon recently. It was a joyful worship service with enthusiastic singing and engaging congregational interaction until the sermon began. I was looking forward to a word...
by John D. Pierce | Aug 1, 2015 | Opinion
By John Pierce Rudy Hayes died on Thursday, and he was part of a dying breed: small-town newspaper editors who built trust and wielded influence. He was editor of the Americus Times-Recorder in southwest Georgia for 40 years. The Waycross, Ga., native moved to...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jul 31, 2015 | Opinion
Travel can be a wonderful thing, especially opportunities to go overseas and experience different cultures, taste new foods, and see new sights. Downsides are part of the deal, of course. Sometimes the new foods don’t agree with you, or the beds are not...
by David Fitch | Jul 31, 2015 | Opinion
I grew up in a time when evidentiary apologetics was big in youth groups. It was not uncommon to use Josh McDowell’s “Evidence that Demands a Verdict” as a youth group curriculum. Then came Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christianity”...
