by Pat Took | Sep 26, 2014 | Opinion
Are Baptists a peaceable people? Do we live together in the reconciled love of Christ? Is our gospel of grace demonstrated in our common life? Well … sometimes. There are many congregations that are laboratories of love, schools of grace. But it has to be...
by Brian Howell (The Martin Marty Center: Sightings) | Sep 26, 2014 | Opinion
This past summer, as I waited for my plane in Tegucigalpa, I browsed one of the airport’s many gift shops looking for something for my 14-year-old son and found, among the soccer jerseys and dried toads, a bright orange T-shirt emblazoned with a colorful bus and...
by Molly T. Marshall | Sep 25, 2014 | Opinion
Few passages in the New Testament rival the great Christ hymn of Philippians, which offers a three-stage Christology: pre-existence, incarnation and exaltation. Theologians just love this kind of symmetry! In just a few verses of Philippians 2, Paul spells out the...
by Phillip Larsen | Sep 25, 2014 | Opinion
My favorite amendment to the U.S. Constitution is the First Amendment. The First Amendment is a warm blanket of free thought that has served as the example of freedom we get to enjoy. I get to think, say and write what I want, associate with whom I want and pretty...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 24, 2014 | Opinion
Learning from our past collective mistakes is essential to present-day success. It is also true that learning from our past collective successes is vital to contemporary thriving. The present context in which the Christian church finds itself – lower weekly attendance...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Sep 23, 2014 | Opinion
North Carolina’s sixth annual “Elevating Preaching” conference encouraged preachers to address needed issues while also incorporating elements of hope into their sermons. The conference, co-sponsored by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North...
