By Pete Maycock I recently went to join in a New Year’s Day worship service in a refugee camp on the Thailand-Burma border. The trip did not quite go according to plan. After nearly 10 hours in the car we…
Martin Luther King and a theology of liberation
By Marty Duren This past Monday, Jan. 17, marked the 24th year since the first official observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday. It seems some are still struggling to get it right. This year, King’s…
Why do Baptists associate?
(Editor’s note: Neville Callam, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, recently spoke to leaders of the North American Baptist Fellowship, one of the BWA’s six regional fellowships, in Dallas. He discussed how one of his goals in discussing the…
Pat Robertson, Haiti and the devil, Part III
(Editor’s Note: This is the final of three special opinion pieces by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison on Pat Robertson’s comments about the Haitian earthquake disaster. The first was published Jan. 14, and the second on Jan. 15. Denison’s regular…
Haiti, Pat Robertson, and the instinct to explain evil
By David Gushee Thousands of Haitians were dead, millions were displaced, and Pat Robertson responded last week by saying, “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the…
Pat Robertson, Haiti and the devil, Part II
(Editor’s Note: This is the second of three special opinion pieces by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison on Pat Robertson’s comments about the Haitian earthquake disaster. The first was published Jan. 14. Denison’s regular FaithLines column will continue to be…
Pat Robertson, Haiti and the devil, Part I
(Editor’s Note: This is the first of three special opinion pieces by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison on Pat Robertson’s comments about the Haitian earthquake disaster. Denison’s regular FaithLines column will continue to be published every other Monday, with the…
Pastors need pastors, too
By Amy Butler When I left seminary, I was just dying to get into a pastorate so I could try out all the good ideas that had been germinating through all those hours and hours of sitting in a seminary…
Brit Hume, Buddhism, and grace
(Editor’s Note: This is the second of two special opinion pieces on the Brit Hume-Tiger Woods controversy by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison. The first piece was published Jan. 12. Denison’s regular FaithLines column will continue to be published every…