by Tony W. Cartledge | Dec 21, 2022 | Opinion
Spending a post-semester week near Boone, North Carolina, brought back memories of the four good years I lived there in the 1980s. I served as pastor to the good people of Oak Grove Baptist Church and did a little adjunct teaching at Appalachian State University while...
by Merianna Harrelson | Feb 21, 2020 | Opinion
I had a dream the other night that I was arriving at the yearly Baptist denominational gathering. The first encounter was from a male colleague who greeted me with a lingering hug. My body stiffened and my mind prepared for what was to come. As he departed, he...
by Bob Newell | May 26, 2014 | Opinion
On Dec. 1, 1990, Phillippe Cozette, a French construction worker, reached a grimy hand through a tiny crack in a rock wall and grabbed the similarly dirty hand of Graham Fagg of Great Britain. That handshake, between a Frenchman and an Englishman, with its careful...
by David Hughes | Apr 4, 2013 | General
A sermon by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston Salem, N.C. Isaiah 65:17-25; Luke 24:1-12; 1 Corinthians 15:19-25 In my humble opinion, Les Miserable is the best musical ever done. Recently, Hollywood made Les Mis into an Academy-Award winning movie...
by Bob Browning | Nov 17, 2011 | General
A sermon delivered by Robert Browning, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ky., on November 13, 2011. Joshua 3:1-17 I am confident many of you associate the title of the sermon with Thanksgiving and rightly so. In 1844, Lydia Maria Child wrote a poem to celebrate...
