by Laura Seay | Jun 20, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Dec. 27, 2006. At the time of publication, Seay was a doctoral candidate at the University of Texas and member of First Baptist Church in Austin, who had studied and lived in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo. Though...
by Fayiah S. Tamba | Jun 19, 2019 | Opinion
On Sept. 10, 2018, I said goodbye to Jenneh, my wife since March 2016, and our two children, Blesseth (2 years old) and Blessing (3 months old), for a challenging adventure to Beijing. Study abroad called me away with the promise that allows me to return to Liberia...
by James Gordon | Jun 18, 2019 | Opinion
Many very fine histories exist of the Plymouth Brethren and the several offshoots in the 19th and 20th centuries. The classic is by Roy Coad, but more recently and with considerably more historical documentation, there are the volumes by Neil Dickson (Scotland) and...
by Michael Ruffin | Jun 18, 2019 | Opinion
Southern gospel music emanating from a 19-inch black-and-white television set was the background for my family getting ready for church in our small Barnesville, Georgia, home in the 1960s. We’d listen to two programs that an Atlanta station sent our way. The first...
by Larry Eubanks | Jun 17, 2019 | Opinion
The Southern Baptist Convention and the Roman Catholic Church hold little in common. In fact, only in recent years have they even come close to recognizing each other’s legitimacy. They do hold two things in common, however. First, they both believe Scripture forbids...
by Ed Hogan | Jun 17, 2019 | Opinion
I am an English teacher and think in terms of metaphors. Having been a preacher for three decades before this, I guess you can say I have been in a lifelong pursuit of relevant, practical, relatable metaphors that speak to the spiritual conditions of lives like mine...