by Cally Chisholm | Aug 14, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
The southern drawl of a Baptist preacher creeps into the speakers when the opening track, “Family Tree (Intro),” begins, setting a tone as the low register of Ethel Cain’s voice transports us to the fictional town of Shady Grove, Ala. circa 1990. Abandoned houses...
by Justin Lockamy | Mar 14, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
An un-Baptist spirit is permeating the leadership of the Southern Baptist Convention. This spirit has a thirst for power and control at the expense of allowing local churches to live out God’s call for their congregation. This same spirit has been at work in the...
by Zach Dawes Jr | Sep 19, 2022 | News
The views of U.S. adults toward the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormon Church) trend negative and unfavorable, according to a YouGov report published September 12. Respondents were asked to...
by Christa Brown | Aug 2, 2022 | Opinion
Many have applauded the sexual abuse reforms of the Southern Baptist Convention, adopted at their annual meeting last June. Not me. The devil is in the details, and those details give me little reason to cheer. Here’s why. Bruce Frank, who led the SBC’s Sexual Abuse...
by Dee Miller | Jul 29, 2022 | Opinion
1. In 1993, Jeff D. Seat, a former SBC pastor, had his troubling theses published in the Journal of Pastoral Care shortly before my first-person account of encountering massive collusion in SBC missions in Africa was published. Contact Dee Ann Miller for information...