by Scott Stearman | Mar 5, 2009 | Opinion
On Feb. 7, 2008, a man walked into Kirkwood City Hall in Missouri and killed six people. It was a large enough, shocking enough crime to make national news. It even ranked a paragraph in the Saturday New York Times. Undoubtedly it made so much press because of the...
by David McCollum | Feb 27, 2009 | News
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—New fruit is budding from a previous dying-on-the-vine event, which originated from some tiny seeds planted here in 1971. That year, two Baptist congregations—one white, one African-American—began worshiping together once a year. In the 1980s, the...
by John D. Pierce | Feb 26, 2009 | Opinion
Southern Baptist editor Kelly Boggs’ recent column in Baptist Press reveals why white conservative Christians are not taken seriously in needed discussions about race. The editor of the Louisiana Baptist Convention newspaper, Baptist Message, addressed the...
by John Baker | Feb 20, 2009 | Opinion
I’m pastor of the First Baptist Church of Columbia, a predominantly white, middle-class congregation in a college town in Missouri. We haven’t always been so white throughout our 185 years of continual ministry. We had a healthy percentage of black members in the...
by Andy Watts | Feb 16, 2009 | Opinion
Is it really better for government and religion to stay out of each other’s affairs? This is a question that Joshua DuBois, the new director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships established by President Barack Obama, most likely...
