Too much of a good thing

One resurfacing memory from my teen years was when some friends and I were offered three bucks each to eat. That’s right, being paid to eat — a teenage boy’s dream.The Krystal Company, the Chattanooga-based producers of square hamburgers with the lovely...

Importance of inter-generational interaction

A 5-year-old boy politely greeted the octogenarian couple at the door and escorted them to a table with Bingo cards. His peers came by to offer cake and other treats. Vineville Baptist Church in Macon, Ga., where I will turn over the pulpit to Tripp Martin in a few...

Everybody’s a winner at BBQ

Never have I passed a BBQ joint (the AP Stylebook insists that “barbecue” is the proper journalistic spelling however) that did not claim to have been voted the best.One must wonder how this can be. Not one place proclaims having come in a close second.Now...

Polygamy, pre-sex prayer and roof rot

Bruce Gourley, the Montana-based web editor for Baptists Today, commented to me yesterday that the stories posted at our web site “are among the most interesting … I’ve seen in a while.” Then he added: “Several of which I could not have...

A slow, but sure shift

The number of female pastors in the U.S. has doubled over the past 10 years according to research by the Barna Group. A Religion News Service story on the report is posted at Baptists Today. As expected, the growth has occurred primarily in mainline Protestant...