by Keith Herron | May 24, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Dec. 5, 2006. Herron was senior pastor at Holmeswood Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri, at the time of publication. It is republished today in light of this week’s EthicsDaily.com series focused on LGBTQI+ persons,...
by Robert Parham | Apr 12, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This editorial first appeared on April 9, 2007. Parham (1957-2017) was the founder and executive director of EthicsDaily.com / Baptist Center for Ethics from 1991-2017. It is republished today during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Baptist leaders claim...
by Christa Brown | Sep 4, 2007 | Opinion
For six years, a convicted child molester was pastor and minister a First Baptist Church in Romeoville, Ill. Deacons knew. Other ministers knew. A denominational official knew. Yet, nothing was done until a minister anonymously contacted the Survivors Network of those...
by Mike Smith | Aug 31, 2007 | Opinion
This past Sunday morning I spent some time with one of the adult Sunday school classes at the church where I am pastor. They had spent several months working through a study of doctrines important to Baptists, and I had been asked to visit and wrap up the study. After...
by Dwight Stinnett | Aug 17, 2007 | Opinion
The 20th century began and ended with American Baptists struggling with how to implement a balance of independence and interdependence in a national organization that claims to be an expression of the Church of Jesus Christ. Perhaps it is a struggle that will be with...