by Mitch Randall | Sep 28, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Something new is rising in the South. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of South Carolina recently invited me to the Palmetto State to speak at various events. In a whirlwind tour, Missy and I ran from Columbia to Greenville to Clemson to Charleston talking to good...
by Mitch Randall | Sep 21, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I recently attended the 2023 Nevertheless She Preached (NSP) conference in Austin, Texas, sponsored in part by Good Faith Media. Revs. Kyndall Rothaus and Natalie Webb are its founders. NSP’s mission “is a collective of innovators who curate an annual conference that...
by Mitch Randall | Sep 14, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
Over the last week, my understanding of ekklēsia (church) has expanded. In four instances, I discovered the concept of ekklēsia in traditional and nontraditional settings: (1) a traditional church, (2) a lecture with a bunch of Baptists about LGBTQ+ inclusion and...
by Mitch Randall | Sep 8, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
As part of Pastors for Oklahoma Kids, an urgent message arrived in my email this week: Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters established a new “partnership” with PragerU, a radically conservative media company attempting to provide school resources nationwide....
by Mitch Randall | Sep 7, 2023 | Feature|Opinion
I had, for too many days, taken up residence in a land of despair. It might be the consecutive days of over 100 degrees at the end of summer. It might be the result of those extreme temperatures as another reminder we’ve run out of time to do anything substantial to...