by Kessa Payne | Sep 16, 2025 | Opinion
In my formative college years, out from under the roof of the loving and protective home in which I grew up, I began to understand that the world was not as clear-cut as right or wrong, black or white. Between the extremes lay a gray area where my understanding of and...
by David Wheeler | Sep 9, 2025 | Opinion
Hermeneutical Questions As Baptists have affirmed and practiced our classic “freedoms”—soul freedom, Bible freedom and congregational freedom—shifting cultural contexts and newly affirmed personal experiences have pushed our conversations forward, as they should. But...
by Michael Chancellor | Aug 21, 2025 | Opinion
When Baylor University first redefined its relationship with the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT), I saw it as a breach of trust. I remember a conversation with a member of my congregation in Shamrock, Texas, who was a true Baylor loyalist and on the search...
by Angela Yarber | Jul 31, 2025 | Opinion
Pride Month may be behind us, but the need for the church to honor queer life remains a present reality. So, the focus of today’s Belief Behind the Book is Diana McLean’s Love is the Why: Heart-Centered Poems by a Queer Woman Minister. Belief Behind the Book is a...
by Josh Carney | Jul 24, 2025 | Opinion
Let me recap as best as I can with the information I have. Baylor’s Diana R. Garland School of Social Work was given a grant. A grant, mind you, they had already received in the past to do similar work they have been doing for years before. They then rejected the...
