by Colin Harris | Mar 16, 2015 | Opinion
“Simon Says” and “Mother May I?” were two versions of a popular game in my childhood. Success resulted from remembering and using these key words. You were “out” if you responded to a directive that wasn’t preceded with...
by Robert Parham | Mar 10, 2015 | Opinion
Baptists are in a winter of discontentment. Isolation, alienation and division appear everywhere. Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, is reportedly feeling isolated and alienated from many in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC)...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 8, 2015 | Opinion
When thousands of Baptists gather in Durban, South Africa for the 21st Baptist World Congress July 22-26, it will mark the first such meeting ever held on the African continent. Organizers from the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) hope more than 4,000 Baptists from around...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 6, 2015 | Opinion
Corneille Gato Munyamasoko, general secretary of the Association of Baptist Churches in Rwanda, will receive the Baptist World Alliance’s quinquennial Human Rights Award in July, following action by the BWA Executive Committee meeting in Falls Church on March 4....
by Danny Chisholm | Mar 6, 2015 | Opinion
Tom Schweich committed suicide at his home on Feb. 26, 2015. He was 54. Schweich was a well-known Republican leader in Missouri. He had been elected to a second term as state auditor and was positioning himself for the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Former U.S. Sen....
by Martin Accad | Mar 5, 2015 | Opinion
The origins of ISIS date to 2004, but it wasn’t until April 2013 that they gained the world’s attention through efforts to establish a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. In my previous column, I shared three takeaways from Graeme Wood’s article about ISIS...
