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...
by William E. Hull | Jan 24, 2020 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on Nov. 7, 2003. Hull was university professor at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, at the time of publication. Boundary markers are important to fundamentalists because they need enemies to energize their cause. In...
by Dee Miller | Oct 2, 2019 | Opinion
The Southern Baptist Convention abuse crisis is over. It was over and done 25 years ago – same as most crises quickly are when professionals ignore unpleasant evidence of matters needing prompt attention. If anybody should know, it’s me – the mental health nurse, who...
by John DeWitt | Sep 3, 2019 | Opinion
I came to a revelation recently; I have a judgment problem. I do not so much have a problem when it comes to those on the margins or those who many Christians most often judge, but I have a judgement problem against conservatives. I am a senior at Liberty University...