by Leroy Seat | Apr 25, 2014 | Opinion
It’s a long way from Kansas City, Mo., to Johannesburg, South Africa. It would take about 17 hours flying time from Kansas City International Airport and cost about $1,675 for a round-trip ticket. I have no plans, or desire, to make such a long, expensive trip....
by Brock Ratcliff | Apr 25, 2014 | Opinion
I am relatively new to the church year and worshipping in a congregation guided by the Revised Common Lectionary. As a Baptist of Southern Baptist heritage, I was largely unaware that there were seasons through which the church progressed each year. I was only aware...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Apr 24, 2014 | Opinion
I suspect we all like things that are new and fresh — but especially when there’s also an element of familiarity. I suppose that’s why we like spring so much. We know what butterflies look like, but after a winter without them, there’s a...
by Guy Sayles | Apr 24, 2014 | Opinion
Not long after I came to Asheville, N.C., the Republican Men’s Club of Buncombe County invited me to their breakfast meeting to tell them about myself and my hopes for First Baptist Ashville’s future. The man who invited me was a member of the church and...
by Roger Olson | Apr 24, 2014 | Opinion
Either serendipitously or providentially, my Christian theology class is studying personal, individual life after death – “heaven” and “hell.” After that, we will study corporate, cosmic eschatology – the future of creation. Because...
by Robert Parham | Apr 24, 2014 | Opinion
Good and Evil. Constructive and destructive. Transformation and degeneration. Has such not always been the interlocking nature with the technology of communication? TV brings into our homes inspiring stories about the better angels among us, alerts us to impending...
