by Colin Harris | Mar 8, 2018 | Opinion
It has been about a month now since the presentation of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s Illumination Project report, and the conversation in response to it has continued, as it should. People and entities have pondered and even acted upon affiliation and...
by Mitch Randall | Feb 16, 2018 | Opinion
The scientific term for altering the direction of light is refraction. Light moves consistently in a straight line until the moment it encounters an object that either redirects it or stops it altogether. Usually, this redirection only occurs in distinct, sharp...
by Bojangles Blanchard | Feb 16, 2018 | Opinion
I went out to get the mail on the Wednesday following my ordination. It was the same day the local paper ran an article on my journey to becoming the first gay person ordained at Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. As I opened the mailbox, I found three...
by Sara Powell | Feb 15, 2018 | Opinion
Several issues have become flashpoints in Christian communities. One of these is the inclusion of LGBT persons in local churches and denominations. On most of these issues, a figurative line is drawn in the sand and both individual and organizations are defined by...
by Mary Elizabeth Hanchey | Feb 15, 2018 | Opinion
I wonder who awoke this morning to find a smudge of ash still haunting the hairline. My children have been known to want to keep the ashen cross on their foreheads overnight, but I protest; it will get all over everything. Remembrances of our dusty humanity, our being...
