by Gary Furr | Oct 6, 2017 | Opinion
Violence in our society is a perplexing reality. If we look at it in terms of statistics, there is less killing and crime in many categories than in many years. When we see the daily litany of murder stories on the news, though, and compare our nation to other...
by Robert Parham | Jul 4, 2012 | Opinion
Global Baptists paid homage in Santiago, Chile, to an Englishman, who wrote a book 400 years ago to King James of England, appealing for religious freedom at a time when kings believed that they had the divine right to determine the faith of their subjects. In a...
by Bruce Prescott | Sep 28, 2009 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This is the first part in a series in which Bruce Prescott, executive director of Mainstream Oklahoma Baptists, examines the future of Baptist identity. At the CBF General Assembly last July, Bill Leonard, dean of the Divinity School at Wake...
by Robert Parham | Jul 27, 2009 | Opinion
Baptists still face state-sponsored religious discrimination, 400 years after the first Baptists sought religious freedom from the intolerant King James I of England, head of the Church of England. Â One such place is the Republic of Serbia. Â The Serbian government...
by Robert Parham | Jul 26, 2009 | Opinion
A Dutch theologian told global Baptists on the opening night of a three-day celebration of the 400th anniversary of the founding of their faith in Amsterdam in 1609 that change was at the heart of their tradition. Â “Being open to change is in our Baptist genes....
