by Bill Wilson | Oct 31, 2013 | Opinion
Our current economy, coupled with the ongoing transitions in congregational life and ministry focus, has combined to create intense pressure on church staffing models. With finances tight, congregations are being forced to take stock of the number of professional...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Oct 31, 2013 | Opinion
Some 41 million children from 5 to 14 years old will don costumes, knock on doors, hold out bags or jack-o-lantern buckets, waiting to have them filled with candy. Tonight is Halloween. U.S. Baptists are all too familiar with Halloween and too unfamiliar with...
by Wm. Loyd Allen | Oct 31, 2013 | Opinion
Adoniram Judson lay starving in a filthy Burmese prison cell in 1824. Every night, his guards passed a long bamboo pole between his shackled legs and those of his fellow prisoners and lifted the pole up until only their shoulders and upper torsos touched the...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Oct 30, 2013 | Opinion
As big cuts in supplemental nutrition programs take effect on Nov. 1, the fast food industry continues to thrive on subsidies from the federal government. There’s no law that says congress will pay $1.2 billion annually to subsidize McDonald’s, for...
by Taylor Sandlin | Oct 30, 2013 | Opinion
When I sit down with couples who are either married or thinking about marriage, one of the first things we tend to work on is the ability to listen attentively to each other. Listening attentively is more difficult than it sounds. Usually, when we are speaking with...
by Lois Mitchell | Oct 30, 2013 | Opinion
The thought of child labor makes me cringe. I envision children spending hours every day in repetitive (and sometimes dangerous) work – forced to earn an income to help the family survive, or, more horrifically, because they have no family and are working for their...
