by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 15, 2014 | Opinion
Friday’s activities provided yet more evidence that Nurturing Faith Experiences are deep, wide, and rich. When we take people to Israel and the West Bank, we make sure they get their money’s worth. Not only do we see more things and have more experiences...
by James Gordon | Nov 14, 2014 | Opinion
You only understand Jonah if you’ve learned to hate, if life experience has educated you in heartfelt, instinctive, focused hostility. And you only understand Jonah’s God if you are prepared to unlearn hatred, and by a painful inner reorientation accept...
by Dennis Bickers | Nov 14, 2014 | Opinion
I served a small, rural church as a bivocational pastor for 20 years before accepting a judicatory role that works with dozens of smaller churches as well as larger ones. I’ve also written eight books on bivocational ministry and issues affecting smaller...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 14, 2014 | Opinion
Day six on the ground for Baptists Today pilgrims/learners in Israel and the West Bank took us around and through Jerusalem, from top to bottom. Due to some recent unrest, we had been uncertain about whether we could go up on the Temple Mount, where security lines on...
by Bill Wilson | Nov 13, 2014 | Opinion
How quickly our conversations can go from theoretical to all-too-real. I spent a rewarding Wednesday in Tennessee recently on a retreat with 45 ministers and staff members thinking through the unique and profound pressures of ministry in the 21st century. We agreed...
by Rod Benson | Nov 13, 2014 | Opinion
Conversion is the central ethical message of Jesus and lies at the heart of evangelical faith and experience. For some, conversion is a slow, lifelong movement of the heart and will toward God. For others, it is a single dramatic experience, a sudden realignment of...
