By Amy Butler It has been over a year and a half since I graduated with my (last ever, I swear) academic degree, and I personally feel that I’ve shown great restraint staying out of the classroom for this long….
The ghouls and goblins of Election Day
By Carl Hoover Fear stalks my neighborhood each Halloween. And fear is stalking America this Election Day. Fear stalked my house two days ago in the form of zombies, child vampires, bloody psychos and masked characters, knocking on front doors…
Juan Williams, censorship and outward appearances
By Jim Denison Until October 18, Juan Williams was known as a journalist and author. Now he is a cause. Williams worked for The Washington Post for 24 years, where he was once nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. He also…
Would Jesus vote Democratic or Republican?
By Barry Howard Nov. 2 is Election Day around the country. In the state of Florida, where I live, citizens will be electing a new governor and a new senator in hotly contested races, and several other important local offices…
Fairness and freedom
By David Wilkinson Another Baptist editor has been ushered out. And that thud you hear is another door to Baptist freedom slamming shut behind him. Technically, Norman Jameson is still editor of the Biblical Recorder of North Carolina, one of…
The Reformation was a tragic necessity
By Timothy George This coming Sunday, Reformation Day, many Baptists will join millions of other Protestant believers around the world in celebrating an event that took place on Oct. 31, 1517. On that day, an obscure Augustinian monk named Martin…
Baptists reformed the Reformers
By Joseph Perdue This Sunday, Oct. 31, marks the 493rd anniversary of the most famous (or infamous, depending on one’s perspective) protest in the history of Western Christianity. An Augustinian monk named Martin Luther nailed a scholarly work to the…
Don’t let Satan have Halloween
By Bob Setzer As a Baptist boy growing up in the South, Halloween was one of my favorite holidays. It was the one time of year my preferred sins were sanctioned: gluttony (especially of the chocolate variety) and getting…
For all the saints (Baptist and otherwise)
By R. Kevin Johnson In a few days, many Christians in the Western traditions of the church will celebrate All Saints’ Day. This feast originated in fifth-century Syria to commemorate martyrs. It is celebrated on November 1 to correspond with…
For or against?
By Joe LaGuardia “We are against Halloween,” one minister recently told me. This is a common response I get from folks in the church. That, and: “We are against homosexuals, abortion, environmentalists, liberals, social-gospel types, postmodernists, illegal immigrants, people who…
The 20-year test
(Editor’s note: Although Bill Wilson’s commentary pieces — written as a column for the Virginia Baptist Religious Herald — have appeared frequently on Associated Baptist Press over the last year, with this edition ABP will begin the regular biweekly publication of his…
Christian witness amid the partisan fray
By David Gushee All eyes are on the November 2 elections, which appear likely to sweep Democrats from control of the House of Representatives and perhaps the Senate. Republicans also appear poised to make gains at the state level, especially…