by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 6, 2015 | Opinion
I allow my students to use laptop computers in class because I want them to take good notes, and most people can type faster and more legibly than they can write by hand. Though I warn them against it at the beginning of each semester, I often ramble around the room...
by Mike Kuhn | Feb 6, 2015 | Opinion
Unless we’ve had the experience of living outside our culture for some time, we may not be aware of the particularities of our culture and have some difficulty articulating what distinguishes our own culture from any other. Our culture is the air we breathe. It...
by Matt Sapp | Feb 6, 2015 | Opinion
We’re facing a mental health crisis in this country. It’s a problem that’s been growing for a long time. Since the 1950s, publicly funded psychiatric care has dwindled, and the availability of hospital beds for psychiatric treatment has nearly...
by Stephen Holmes | Feb 5, 2015 | Opinion
Baptists did away with various traditional distinctions of Christian life in their beginnings. Although practicing ordination, we denied it established any set-apart hierarchy within the life of the church. We also rejected the traditional Roman Catholic practice of...
by Roger Olson | Feb 5, 2015 | Opinion
Every once in a while, I meet someone who, while exhibiting every sign of being a true Christian, denies the traditional Christian doctrine of “creatio ex nihilo” – creation out of nothing. This belief that God is before all things, combined with the idea...
by Laura Taylor | Feb 5, 2015 | Opinion
Tax collectors had a pretty bad name in New Testament times. And perhaps rightly so. At the time, taxation represented subordination and injustice – collected by a Roman regime stripping wealth from the territories they occupied to fund the machinery of their empire....
