by Zach Dawes Jr | May 26, 2015 | Opinion
Waco, Texas, made national news again due to violence. This central Texas town of around 125,000 people is, unfortunately, more widely known due to violent incidents that have happened. Anyone unfamiliar with Texas or Baylor University likely knew little about Waco...
by Joe LaGuardia | May 26, 2015 | Opinion
Christianity is a collaborative faith. In a letter to churches in Corinth, the apostle Paul confronted several congregations that were arguing with each other. The thrust of his message was that no two churches were alike and each one served a purpose in the body of...
by Larry Eubanks | May 25, 2015 | Opinion
God made humans in his image and entrusted them with sovereignty over the rest of creation, according to Genesis 1. This sovereignty over creation isn’t a despotic rule to do whatever we want with and to the earth, imposing our will on it. Have you ever tried to...
by Thomas Kidd | May 25, 2015 | Opinion
Baptist pastor James Manning of Providence, Rhode Island, wrote to English Baptist leader John Ryland in November 1776, apprising him of trouble in the American colonies. Two winters before, Providence’s Baptists had seen a prodigious revival, with perhaps 200...
by Danny Chisholm | May 22, 2015 | Opinion
We see them all the time. They are everywhere in town and easily visible when driving on streets and highways. I’m talking about speed limit signs. These symbols that appear on the side of the road are often interpreted as “suggestions,” as we...
by Chris Hall | May 22, 2015 | Opinion
On a recent Sunday night, BMS World Mission worker Ann MacFarlane received a text. “Come to the port in the early hours of Monday morning.” If MacFarlane had been back in Reggio Calabria on Italy’s southern coast, she would have been there at the...