by Mary Dyer | Aug 21, 2025 | Opinion
The eighth-century BCE prophet Isaiah heard the following words from God: “Learn to do good; seek justice, rescue the oppressed, defend the orphan, plead for the widow” (Isaiah 1:17). They are just as important today as they were almost three millennia ago when the...
by Michael Chancellor | Aug 21, 2025 | Opinion
When Baylor University first redefined its relationship with the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT), I saw it as a breach of trust. I remember a conversation with a member of my congregation in Shamrock, Texas, who was a true Baylor loyalist and on the search...
by Peggy Haymes | Aug 20, 2025 | Opinion
Editor’s Note: The following is the fourth installment of a five-part series on the spiritual formation aspects of grief. Sitting on the exam table after a bout of double pneumonia, I talked with my doctor about the experience. “I’m not surprised I got sick,” I said....
by Angela Yarber | Aug 20, 2025 | Opinion
Memoirs, particularly those penned by marginalized ministers, have the capacity to challenge and uplift our faith in profoundly personal ways. This is the case with today’s Belief Behind the Book—Dr. Charisse Gillett’s This Little Girl: Memories, Challenges, and...
by Raouf J. Halaby | Aug 20, 2025 | Opinion
Because of their sacred duty to truth, accuracy and objectivity, the American media employs thousands of dedicated women and men to disseminate domestic and international news. The press has long been called the “Fourth Branch” of the U.S. government. And yet, due to...
by Craig Nash | Aug 19, 2025 | Opinion
Early in Stripes, the 1981 comedy about Army misfits, a sergeant gathers a group of recruits for a time of getting to know each other. One recruit launches into a diatribe about how he wants to be named and treated: “The name’s Francis Soyer, but everybody calls...
