by Larry Coleman | Feb 4, 2014 | Opinion
For Baptist churches following the liturgical worship calendar, Lent is a given. However, there are exponentially more pastors who, if they speak the word “Lent,” will be greeted with resistance or even an anti-Catholic rant. Our Puritan forefathers...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 3, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Two recent studies have stirred conversations about the most “Bible-minded” cities in the U.S. Topping the two lists are places where large chunks of my life have been spent: Chattanooga and Atlanta. The American Bible Society, in a survey conducted by...
by Naomi King Walker | Feb 3, 2014 | Opinion
When a South Georgia congregation hired me in 1973 as their first full-time minister of music, Baptist women ministers were extremely rare. I had almost no female peers, anywhere. Needing community, I joined an all-male group of Baptist music ministers who gathered...
by Stephen H. Cook | Feb 3, 2014 | Opinion
“Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” I spoke that old phrase as I smudged the sign of the cross on the forehead of the 6-year-old girl in front of me. She was the first that night at the Ash Wednesday service. Not only was she the first to come...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Feb 3, 2014 | Opinion
Some days I feel like Britta Perry, a character on NBC’s sitcom “Community.” An outspoken proponent of social justice, she often tries to persuade her community college study group to be more involved in addressing injustice in the world. When her...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Feb 2, 2014 | Opinion
I spent part of last Friday afternoon in prison — not being fingerprinted or “scared straight,” but hanging out with Terri Stratton, the first female senior staff chaplain in the 130-year history of North Carolina’s Central Prison. Central...
