by Mark Wingfield | May 4, 2021 | Opinion
As a 19-year-old, I experienced a spiritual calling to journalism. And it happened while watching TV. No, I wasn’t called to ministry by a televangelist. My calling came through the voice of Ed Asner, who in December 1980 was playing the role of a newspaper editor on...
by Mark Wingfield | Jul 15, 2020 | Opinion
Remember that famous scene from the movie, “A Few Good Men,” where Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson face off in a courtroom? Cruise is interrogating Nicholson on the witness stand and declares, “I want the truth!” And then Nicholson shouts back at Cruise, “You can’t...
by Mark Wingfield | Sep 11, 2003 | News
Two media outlets have raised questions about potential conflicts of interest among Baylor University regents. The Dallas Morning News first raised the issue in an article published Sunday, Sept. 7. Potential conflicts of interest also were discussed in an editorial...
by Mark Wingfield | Aug 21, 2003 | News
In his first public comments on the plight of Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, Richard Land said Aug. 18 he is troubled by the Southern Baptist judge’s open defiance of a federal court ruling. Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics...
by Mark Wingfield | Jul 8, 2003 | News
What it means to be a “partner” ministry with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship–and how much financial dependence that title implies—have become front-burner issues for the moderate group. The CBF currently devotes 28 percent of its budget to fund...
