by Christa Brown and David Clohessy | Aug 6, 2020 | Opinion
Does it get any sicker than this? At a flagship megachurch of the Southern Baptist Convention, church staffer James A. Hook sexually abused a 15-year-old church girl. Hook sent the girl sexually explicit photos of her own mother – photos he had taken when he had an...
by Tony Cartledge | Aug 5, 2020 | Opinion
Paige Patterson’s ill-fated tenure as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Texas had one good feature for archaeology nerds like me. He strongly supported the school’s archaeology program, known as the Tandy Institute. Not so the new president,...
by Brian Kaylor | Jul 17, 2020 | Opinion
Last August, I stood in the pulpit of the church I attend and announced that four of the congregation’s first seven pastors were slaveholders. Audible gasps filled the air. And that’s when I realized just how much we needed an honest airing of our past. In a July 13...
by Autumn Lockett | Mar 2, 2020 | Opinion
Admitting I needed help after the birth of our fourth child was a yearlong struggle. I tried vitamin supplements, watched my already healthy diet, exercised, prayed, meditated, worked with a therapist and finally sat on the crinkly white paper of my primary care...
by Mitch Randall | Feb 19, 2020 | Opinion
The tactics of conservative fundamentalists were unfamiliar to me in 1994 as a first-year graduate student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. By the end of my first year, I was no longer unfamiliar. In the spring of that year, seminary...
