By Zachary Bailes Dear Albert Mohler: We hope this finds you well. First, we offer our congratulations for making it on the Colbert Show. That’s a fantastic show, and we tune in often. Second, we offer gratitude for fighting for…
Yesterday, today and tomorrow
By Amy Butler “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away.” The woman’s cigarette-roughened voice, harsh and grating, echoed off the limestone of the National Portrait Gallery building. You could hear the wistful tone in her song, mixed together with…
9/11 and the paradox of Christian patriotism in America
By David Gushee Responses to 9/11 and its aftermath have deepened the paradox of Christian patriotism, which may be more acute in the United States than anywhere else in the world at this particular moment. It is indeed a perennial…
Redeeming 9/11
By Jim Denison For some, 9/11 proves that the God of Scripture is a myth. Sam Harris, the atheist and bestselling author, claims that the existence of a single suffering child anywhere in the universe calls into question the existence…
Duke McCall at 97
By David Wilkinson Thirty years ago McCall, who turned 97 on Sept. 1, was a household name in Southern Baptist life. As president or chief executive officer, he had led the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, transformed a Bible institute…
Irene, Michele and theological missteps
By Bob Setzer In the wake of every natural disaster, some public figure feels compelled to utter a theological interpretation of events that is clear, compelling, and fundamentally wrong. This time it was presidential contender Michele Bachmann who told a…
Movie review: ‘The Tree of Life’
By Stuart Lamkin The Tree of Life is a piece of art. It tries to tell the story of life — at times beautiful, mysterious, moving and confusing. Writer and director Terrence Malick has made only four other movies over…
Unanticipated courage: A 9/11 retrospective
By Bill Leonard In the days ahead, we revisit graphic images that no doubt haunt survivors and families of the dead continually: A commercial airliner crashes into the World Trade Center in what seemed at first a horrible accident. A…
Dr. King’s dream for us all
By Roger Lovette This Sunday Washington will be crowded with millions who come to dedicate the national monument to Martin Luther King. Of all the monuments along the Tidal Basin this will be the only monument honoring a private citizen….