by Larry Greenfield | Nov 8, 2013 | Opinion
When sessions of a legislature or court, at whatever level of government, open with prayer, what is really going on? To be clear, I’m a Baptist Christian and, therefore, oppose all public prayer in political settings universally. I’m also a proud citizen...
by Dennis Bickers | Nov 8, 2013 | Opinion
As a judicatory leader, I spend a lot of time listening to pastors and church lay leaders talk about the numerous challenges of doing ministry in the 21st century. They talk about how difficult it is to attract new people to their churches, apathy within their own...
by Chuck Warnock | Nov 7, 2013 | Opinion
Multicultural churches are all the rage these days. Conferences are packed with pastors learning how to start a multicultural church or how to turn the churches they pastor into one. That long-overdue trend is welcomed because God is the God of diversity. In light of...
by Katie McKown | Nov 7, 2013 | Opinion
Article after article has been written about how the church can reach millennials. Many of those articles make good points the church can and should incorporate; however, is anyone asking what millennials can learn from older folks? Many say millennials want...
by Nick Lear | Nov 7, 2013 | Opinion
I have recently had an invitation to renew my car insurance online. The cost seems to be significantly higher this year. The email I received explained that this is because insurers in the United Kingdom can no longer take a customer’s gender into account when...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Nov 6, 2013 | Opinion
I couldn’t help taking interest in recent news that Egypt’s famous King Tutankhamun — the boy king behind the solid gold death mask discovered by Howard Carter in 1922 — had a really bad time of it both before and after his death....