by Larry Greenfield | Aug 11, 2009 | Opinion
I don’t think I made a conscious decision to accept the job, and certainly it wasn’t offered or assigned to me. But increasingly I find myself employed as an unsalaried groundskeeper around my neighborhood. This is not a full-time position. I only put my...
by David McCollum | Jul 26, 2009 | News
The justice element was already out there. The “sweet” was added when an idea sprouted over a lot of coffee and a lot of chocolate late one night. Thus, Second Baptist Church of Little Rock, Ark., dedicated Wednesday nights during the summer to a Sweet...
by Aaron Weaver | Jul 21, 2009 | Opinion
Baptists as a whole have a mixed track record when it comes to the environment. Some Baptist groups, such as the American Baptist Churches-USA as well as some moderate Baptists in the South, have voiced their concern on environmental issues since the first Earth Day...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 2, 2009 | News
On June 26, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed unprecedented climate legislation endorsed by more than 140 Baptist leaders. One week before the 219-212 vote passing the “American Clean Energy and Security Act,” a Baptist Center for Ethics...
by Robert Parham | Jul 1, 2009 | Opinion
Trinitarian politics is the best predictor of an individual’s votes — not the belief in Christianity’s doctrine of the Trinity but adherence to the holy alliance of biblical literalism, free-market ideology and hostility toward science. “One in...
