by Wendell Griffen | May 27, 2022 | Opinion
At the end of each message sent from my personal email account is a quote from South African liberation theologian Allan Boesak that I have appropriated for the title of this column. Boesak’s statement, “The Time for Pious Words is Over,” is part of the title of...
by Todd Heifner | May 26, 2022 | Opinion
Reading the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sexual Abuse Task Force report since its release this past Sunday afternoon has been an agonizing and sickening exercise. Engaging the report, and consuming raw details of how broken this institution is, has almost been more...
by John D. Pierce | May 17, 2022 | News
“Echoes of mercy and whispers of love” flowed as family, friends, colleagues, congregants, students and inspired younger ministers gathered May 14 to celebrate the impactful life of W. Randall Lolley. The gathering at the First Baptist Church of...
by John D. Pierce | Jul 6, 2021 | Opinion
Professor Bill Hoyt, chair of the department of religion and philosophy, returned what we students of old called “term papers” – pecked out on a typewriter and smeared with the brushed-on, corrective fluid branded as Wite-Out. It was my first research paper in an...
by Alyssa Aldape | Jun 25, 2021 | Opinion
The Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC’s) 2021 meeting in Nashville last week led to significant reactions from both outsiders and insiders. As the findings against fired seminary president Paige Patterson, the baseless fears of critical race theory and anxiety around...
