By Amy Butler As a loving parent interested in knowing what my children like, my ongoing and increasingly unsuccessful attempts to understand the teen-aged mind led me last week to go with them to see the new movie The Avengers….
‘The Avengers’ a metaphor for the church
By Amy Butler As a loving parent interested in knowing what my children like, my ongoing and increasingly unsuccessful attempts to understand the teen-aged mind led me last week to go with them to see the new movie The Avengers….
Thanking my teacher
By Molly T. Marshall He invited me to be his graduate assistant. He married Douglas and me. He was the midwife of my dissertation. He preached my ordination sermon. He encouraged me as a younger colleague in the theology department…
Theological education that works
By Ircel Harrison I received my first seminary degree 42 years ago this month. There is much about that experience that I still treasure. I studied under some excellent professors, made a number of friends that I encountered occasionally in…
Pentecostal power
By Curtis Freeman In the church where I grew up, we used to sing with great fervor: “Lord send the old-time power, the Pentecostal power!” I never was quite sure what that song was about. I suspected it had more…
Pentecostal power
Pentecostal power
A Baptist shame
By Bill Leonard Tonight I am ashamed to be a Baptist. Born into Baptist “cradle role” in the First Baptist Church of Decatur, Texas, and baptized on profession of faith in that congregation when I was 8 years old, I’ve…
I do not identify with race
By Starlette McNeill I am not recognized in, by or through race, and I do not want to be associated with others based on the social coloring of my skin. Instead I want to be identified by my Christian confession…