by Wm. Loyd Allen | Oct 31, 2013 | Opinion
Adoniram Judson lay starving in a filthy Burmese prison cell in 1824. Every night, his guards passed a long bamboo pole between his shackled legs and those of his fellow prisoners and lifted the pole up until only their shoulders and upper torsos touched the... by Wm. Loyd Allen | Mar 4, 2009 | General
Sermon delivered by Loyd Allen, professor of church history and spiritual formation at McAfee school of Theology in Atlanta, Ga., on March 3, 2009, Psalm 19 To the leader. A Psalm of David. The heavens are telling the glory of God; and the firmament proclaims his... by Wm. Loyd Allen | Nov 27, 2002 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article was revised on Nov. 22, 2019, to remove a reference to a 1623 Thanksgiving sermon discovered to be inaccurate by the author upon further research. I once heard a non-Baptist governor’s wife at a Baptist college Thanksgiving... by Wm. Loyd Allen | Sep 4, 2002 | Opinion
Some contemporary Baptists apparently cannot comprehend how born-again Christian Baptists in early 19th-century Delaware, Connecticut, Maryland and Virginia could willingly praise Jefferson because he vouched for the freedom of all consciences, believer and... by Wm. Loyd Allen | Aug 12, 2002 | Opinion
How are Christians to understand the words of Muhammad as preserved in the holy writings of Islam? What will Muslims find in the Bible? The method of interpretation matters. Most people know by now that Jerry Vines, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention,...
