by John D. Pierce | Jun 18, 2013 | Opinion
By John Pierce In its constant pursuit of a narrowly defined orthodoxy, Southern Baptist Convention leadership refuses to let logic interfere with decision making. Hence, the recent well-publicized efforts to ostracize Boy Scouts and to keep peace with the Calvinists...
by Jim Somerville | Jun 18, 2013 | Opinion
I’m not sure whose idea it was that my interfaith group should visit Monticello, but that’s what we did. There was something in the memo about Thomas Jefferson’s commitment to “religious liberty,” and how important it is for all Americans...
by Greg Mobley | Jun 18, 2013 | Opinion
We cannot truly understand the biblical prophets without pausing to reflect on the idea of divine anger without prejudice. No matter how foreign or familiar this concept appears to contemporary readers, divine anger was a consuming reality for the biblical prophets...
by Grace Ji-Sun Kim | Jun 18, 2013 | Opinion
Uriah the Hittite, husband of Bathsheba, was an officer of the Israelite army, a native of Jerusalem and a faithful Yahwist. Uriah is a Yahwistic name meaning “Yahweh is my light/fire.” Four other Uriahs named in the Old Testament are either prophets or...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 17, 2013 | Opinion
Summer saunters in like a waiter with a menu of laid-back opportunities, but the one I usually look forward to first is the arrival of homegrown tomatoes. I typically get my tomatoes in the ground around Easter, if it’s warm enough, and I coddle them a...
by Nathan Napier | Jun 17, 2013 | Opinion
We’ve all been there. Recent college or seminary graduates excited to teach our future churches all the wonderful things we have learned about biblical studies in order to open up the newest vistas of biblical truth and knowledge, only to find that our...
