2 Baptist Groups Cooperate on Mission Initiatives

I have been involved in various conferences, celebrations and worship events designed to address the need for racial reconciliation for the past 50 years. The vast majority of these events were developed by an academic community or they came about as an invitation...

Balancing Two Visions in Baptist Life

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Georgia held our spring general assembly at the First Baptist Church in Athens, Georgia, a little over 18 years ago. I had been on the job as executive coordinator for six months and was, of course, hopeful that the meeting would...

How to Turn Around the Incredible Shrinking Church

Diana Butler Bass was the keynote speaker at an annual preaching consultation at St. Simons Island, Georgia, at the end of September. She is one of, it not the most, respected observers of religious life today. Her books have captured the attention of this generation....