Baptist’s Call for Gender Equality in Early 1900s

Baptist Women in Ministry (BWIM), an organization for which I have a tremendous amount of respect, sells a T-shirt with the phrase, “This is what a preacher looks like.” I love that slogan. I teach religion majors at Campbell University in North Carolina....

Jesse Helms and Eternal Peace

Admittedly, I was never a fan of Jesse Helms, the conservative (an understatement) longtime Senator from North Carolina that just recently died on July 4. His funeral was Tuesday at Hayes Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh and was attended by the powerful politicians...