By Amy Butler It has of late become the newest and most frequent lament of the oppressed in my household: “The struggle is real!” If I were to say to one of my teenage kids: “Please put your dirty dishes…
The struggle is real
By Amy Butler It has of late become the newest and most frequent lament of the oppressed in my household: “The struggle is real!” If I were to say to one of my teenage kids: “Please put your dirty dishes…
To discern God in the world
As social media exploded with the news of the SCOTUS’ decision, I wondered how this decision would impact the national Cooperative Baptist Fellowship conference. Would the agenda change? Would speakers change their prepared manuscripts or would those conversations be saved for…
Leaning in together
By Molly T. Marshall Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has created quite a stir with her national best seller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. She rightly applauds the social change over the past 50 years since the…
Leaning in together
By Molly T. Marshall Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has created quite a stir with her national best seller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. She rightly applauds the social change over the past 50 years since the…
Not budgets, programs, and projects
I am always amazed as I visit some of our smaller communities at the way God is at work through the congregations. Too often we tend to look at the numbers and the programs. We lose the story of the…
The New Calvinism in the SBC
By Jerry Faught The recent Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting featured a 3,500 word report from the Calvinism Advisory Committee, chaired by David Dockery of Union University. To the surprise of no one the committee essentially declared “we agree far…
Getting straight about that serpent-dove thing
Most readers of this blog would identify as moderate Baptists who view their more ideological brothers and sisters as well-intentioned, but misguided, extremists. Moderates are sensible mediators between extremes who eschew both conservative and liberal forms of group-think, political correctness,…
‘Ex-gay’ apology long overdue
By Joe Phelps The announcement that Exodus International is ending its 37-year “ministry” focused on “curing” homosexuals is welcome news indeed. I am impressed and grateful for the apology issued by Alan Chambers, the leader of the organization. It seems…