It’s past time

by | Feb 29, 2012 | Opinion

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) moderator Colleen Burroughs made news last week for stating a simple and obvious opinion — that CBF really needs to have an open conversation about its “organizational value” on sexuality that prohibits “the...

Why Your Church Should Consider an Older Pastor

by | Feb 29, 2012 | Opinion

One thing that is predictable about pastor-search committees is that they all want something similar: a great preacher, an amazing administrator who loves visiting, someone who is effective with young families and senior adults, a 38-year-old with 25 years’...

This Lent, Is It Time for You to Deny Denial?

by | Feb 29, 2012 | Opinion

We’ve all heard, “Denial is not just a river in Egypt.” As worn-out as that cliché surely is, it still serves to remind us of one of the most common dances we use to two-step around the truth about ourselves and the world – the denial dance. You can...

5 Steps from Baptists’ History Define Their Vision

by | Feb 28, 2012 | Opinion

Editor’s note: This column is another of several EthicsDaily.com will carry from an initiative from Great Britain called “Beyond400.net – Baptists Imagining Life After 400 Years.” As we look beyond 400 years of Baptist life in England, I want to...

Presidents’ Religions Weren’t Always a Big Deal

by | Feb 28, 2012 | Opinion

With the February birthdays of both Presidents Washington and Lincoln celebrated as a national holiday, I found a column by a Charleston, S.C., Post and Courier pundit somewhere between amusing and disturbing. At least this sentence. “[A president’s]...