By David Wilkinson For Eric Metaxas, a New York Times best-selling author, one story led to another. A few years ago a friend gave Metaxas a book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the brilliant and courageous German theologian, pastor and writer who…
Facebook and virtual virtues
By Carra Hughes Greer Let’s face it: Facebook is quickly becoming a “community” of its own. For some, Facebook has replaced much (actual) face-to-face communication and has become a major means of relationship building. Whether we agree or not about…
A good word about preaching
By Bill Wilson Healthy churches hear good preaching. Few would disagree with such a statement. However, the definition of good preaching is about as easy to agree upon as is good taste in fashion. Our definition of good preaching usually…
On being an eightysomething Baptist
By David Gushee I am 48 years old, and I acutely feel the generational reality of being caught in the middle, betwixt the 80-year-old generation represented by my parents and the 20-year-olds represented by my children and students. It…
My evil plan to overthrow church-membership practices
By Amy Butler In the tradition of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, I would like here to officially announce the unveiling of my grand plan to overthrow current church-membership practices. You heard me right. It’s not that this thinking is…
Separation of church and state worth preserving
By Nathan Webb The relationship of government and religion in America has long been a controversial topic. Early colonists came to America with the hope of creating a nation in which their religion was not controlled or restricted by the…
When atheists and Baptists agree
By Rachel Held Evans I believe that Jesus Christ is Lord and that the Earth is roughly 4.5 billion years old. This position routinely puts me at odds with two groups of people — atheists and Baptists. In fact, over…
Do non-believers know more about faith than believers?
By Jim Denison Do atheists and agnostics know more about Christianity than Christians? That’s what you would think if you scanned the headlines generated by a recent Pew Forum test on religious knowledge. The Los Angeles Times headlined its…
The Politics of Jesus
By James L. Evans Over the 10 years I have been writing a syndicated newspaper column, readers at various times have complained that the content is too religious for the editorial page or too political for the religion page. I…