by Jim Hopkins | Jun 26, 2020 | Opinion
The place of statues in public spaces is currently under great scrutiny. This examination includes not only statues erected to commemorate Confederate generals, soldiers and political leaders, but also those erected in honor of presidents like George Washington,...
by Ken Sehested | Jun 26, 2020 | Opinion
I will likely be considered antiquated, maybe maniacal, even apoplectic when I say we in the United States (with derivative outbreaks elsewhere) are under the spell of the demonic. Of those who worship death’s malicious craving, specifically the sacrificial scalp of...
by Michael Manning | Nov 12, 2019 | Opinion
“If you can’t measure it, then it doesn’t exist.” This sentiment, or versions of it, is prevalent across a whole range of areas in society and the church. On the face of it, this makes sense. It seems sensible to plan the amount of food you’re...
by John Mark Boes | Aug 12, 2019 | Opinion
I’m hesitant to write this. After my last Cooperative Baptist Fellowship blog piece titled “Does This Have to Be America?,” I received some criticism for my apparent lack of “speaking truth to power,” and the feeling that I represented the views of the “elite.” My...
by Colin Harris | Sep 29, 2016 | Opinion
Idolatry and injustice seem to be at the top of the list of violations of covenant faith. The prophets and historians of ancient Israel identified the tendency to claim “godness” for one’s own thinking and behavior as the primary “flaw”...
