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...
by Isaiah Anthony | Jun 18, 2021 | Opinion
It’s a strange sight – seeing a crowd of 15,000, packed shoulder to shoulder in a convention hall, with no faces covered by the masks that have become so ubiquitous over the last 18 months. Indeed, with the pandemic fading in the United States, there was little need...
by Mitch Randall | Jun 17, 2021 | Opinion
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) met this week in Nashville, Tennessee. Good Faith Media’s partnering organizations covered the event with careful and thoughtful reporting. In particular, Word&Way, Baptist News Global and Religion News Service provided...
by John D. Pierce | May 11, 2021 | Opinion
When a minister is criticized for “being too political,” one can be assured the offense is not politics at large, but rather someone’s preferred political allegiance. The same goes for editors and writers. Though unsurprising, but always disappointing, we lose...
