by Randall Balmer | Jul 17, 2024 | Feature-, Opinion
I don’t often comment on matters related to the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). First, many people I admire know far more about the SBC than I do, so I’m inclined to defer to their wisdom, experience, and well, battle scars. Second, commenting on matters Southern...
by Tony W. Cartledge | May 25, 2022 | Opinion
Graduation night for Campbell University Divinity School carried an extra frisson of excitement this year: due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was our first in-person graduation since 2019. All faculty members play some role in the ceremony, and this year it was my turn...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jan 13, 2021 | Opinion
Those of us who participated in or at least lived through the hot debates on “inerrancy” that divided the Southern Baptist Convention will recall that a favorite term of its adherents was (and is) theopneustos, a rare word that appears only once in the Bible, in 2...
by William E. Hull | Jan 24, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Nov. 7, 2003. Hull was university professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of publication. Boundary markers are important to fundamentalists because they need enemies to energize their cause. In...
by James L. Evans | Jul 15, 2011 | Opinion
In March, a group known as the Committee on Bible Translation released a new edition of the New International Version (NIV) of the Bible. The first edition, released in 1984, has been one of the best-selling translations of the Bible in centuries – second only to the...
