Doggone Metaphors

“There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor,” writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson has observed. “You can’t think without metaphors.” One example of a toxic metaphor came during a recent address by former...

Be Ready for Terrorist Attack, Welch Urges Pastors

Caught up in fear and uncertainty after terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Southern Baptists missed an opportunity to share the gospel with a society ready to receive a word of comfort, Southern Baptist Convention president Bobby Welch says on a DVD sent to 70,000...