by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 11, 2012 | Opinion
Glenn JonasWhen the Baptist History and Heritage Society met in Raleigh June 7-9, the official topic was “Baptists and Theology.” Through three keynote addresses and a variety of breakout sessions, both historians and theologians addressed the...
by Guy Sayles | Jun 11, 2012 | Opinion
This past Sunday our youth choir, under the creative and visionary direction of Clark Sorrells, and with the support of 80-plus adult volunteers, presented (magnificently!) Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Jesus Christ Superstar. Jesus Christ Superstar...
by Colin Harris | Jun 11, 2012 | Opinion
Recent attention to prison reform seems to have been prompted by the cost of high recidivism rates. Robert Parham’s recenteditorial noted several initiatives aimed at curbing the cost of imprisonment. These are encouraging. Money talks, and in spite of...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 8, 2012 | Opinion
(Written May 31 from Santiago de Cuba, with a 12-person team sponsored by Woodhaven Baptist Church in Apex, working through North Carolina Baptist Men’s partnership with the Eastern Baptist Convention of Cuba.) Baseball players excepted, things rarely move fast...
by Bill Wilson | Jun 8, 2012 | Opinion
Building a congregation’s life around a clear vision and purpose is an easy thing to believe in. Aligning that purpose with biblical teaching and witness is an agreeable notion. I seldom encounter a leader or leadership group who resists the idea that the path...
by Ircel Harrison | Jun 8, 2012 | Opinion
A person must have an outsized ego to approach the author of biographies of Albert Einstein and Benjamin Franklin to write his own biography. Steve Jobs seems to have had no problem asking Walter Isaacson to undertake that assignment. Once you read Isaacson’s...
