by Naomi King Walker | Mar 8, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Aug. 11, 2010. Naomi King-Walker was music/worship pastor at Immanuel Baptist Church in Frankfort, Kentucky, at the time of publication. She is now retired. Her column is republished today on International Women’s Day to...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 7, 2019 | Opinion
With the International Women’s Day taking place on Friday, March 8, I want to make this declaration clear: “I am a feminist.” Gloria Steinem once said, “A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” For Christians who read and...
by Eileen R. Campbell-Reed | Mar 7, 2019 | Opinion
A refrigerator magnet I had years ago said, “If you aren’t going to ordain women, why baptize girls?” Funny – not funny! Perhaps there is a corollary for theological education. “If churches won’t call women, why should seminaries educate them?” Indeed, many churches...
by Kim Divelbiss | Mar 7, 2019 | Opinion
My only true goal in life was to become someone’s mother. God granted that opportunity three times with earthly children and three times with heavenly children who lived inside me for only a short time. Adoption and infertility treatments made my dreams come true and...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Mar 6, 2019 | Opinion
The Baptist World Alliance (BWA) stopped a six-year slide in contributions with a ten percent growth in gifts during 2018, but General Secretary Elijah Brown cautioned Executive Committee members gathered March 4-6 in Falls Church, Va., that one year’s growth does not...
by John D. Pierce | Mar 6, 2019 | Opinion
By John D. Pierce At hotel check-in time I am profusely thanked for being “elite” as well as loyal. A new rewards program has designated my status as “titanium” now, not merely “platinum.” Even the plastic key and paper holder that let me find and enter my...
