by Robert Parham | Dec 26, 2006 | Opinion
When I first went to work for a denominational agency in Nashville, I encountered two wasteful patterns that forever set me in another direction. One was individual sloth. The other was organizational misdirection. I observed that some religious bureaucrats were among...
by Joe Trull | Jan 17, 2006 | Opinion
I was in Phoenix on Friday, Jan. 6, attending the annual Society of Christian Ethics meeting, when Foy Valentine called. When he learned I would be in Dallas on Tuesday, he said, “Let’s get together.” We planned to. Often we met at a pancake house...
by Bob Allen | Jan 7, 2006 | News
Foy Valentine, leader of the Southern Baptist Convention’s moral-concerns agency for a tumultuous 27 years spanning from the civil-rights movement of the 1960s to the fundamentalist takeover of the denomination in the 1980s, died Saturday after an apparent heart...