Who Gets to Judge Who is a Christian?

What is your working definition of a Christian? And who gets to decide whether or not a person is a Christian? In certain quarters, those are topics of great importance. During the last presidential election cycle, there were frequent articles about whether or not...

What’s the Key to Successful Church Ministry?

Graduation week at The John Leland Center for Theological Studies is an occasion that puts me in a reflective mood. In 1970, it was me, and the world was changing. Rapidly. But since the church in general and Baptists in particular tend to lag at least several decades...