by Craig Nash | Aug 14, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
A well-worn youth minister metaphor explains how easy it is to get off course. It begins at the beginning. Hikers (or pilots or sailors or whichever protagonist lands best with your audience) who find themselves far off their target destination usually need to look no...
by Rob Sellers | Jun 15, 2020 | Opinion
There are many kinds of Baptists, but I find the political loyalties of certain prominent Baptists puzzling if not startling. Their devotion to Donald Trump is unwavering, despite anything he says or does that is contrary to the way of Jesus, to which they claim also...
by Mitch Randall | Oct 25, 2018 | Opinion
Evangelicals have been drifting away from addressing critical matters using divine thoughts for decades. Increasingly, they have created a cognitive framework built more on attaining political power than on a theological conscience rooted in divine love, grace and...
by Rob Sellers | Nov 3, 2011 | Opinion
On May 16, 1920, on the east steps of the capitol building in Washington, D.C., a historic speech was delivered to some 15,000 people, many of them Baptists. The speaker was George W. Truett, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas. His speech was titled...
by Randy Hyde | Oct 21, 2011 | Opinion
Jon Meacham, the esteemed Newsweek religion columnist, is right when he says that calling into question Mitt Romney’s faith is “bad for all of us.” Now, before anyone immediately starts to object that I need to keep my opinions strictly in the realm...
