(Editor’s Note: This is the first of two special opinion pieces on the Brit Hume-Tiger Woods controversy by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison. The second part will be published tomorrow, Jan. 13. Denison’s regular FaithLines column will continue to be…
Guantanamo turns eight
By David Gushee Eight years ago today (Jan. 11), the United States government transported the first prisoners from Afghanistan to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On January 22, 2009, the new President, Barack Obama, stated that Guantanamo would…
Homegrown terrorism and the presence of God
By Jim Denison On Christmas Day, a Dutch filmmaker prevented what would likely have been the worst act of terrorism on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001. As you probably know by now, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old son of…
In 2010, be a part of life’s solutions
By Bill Webb In case you hadn’t noticed, the year 2009 ended leaving a lot of us a bit uneasy. And many aren’t anticipating a reversal of trends — especially negative ones — for 2010. The economic crisis in the…
Brit Hume says the ‘C’-word, with predictable results
By Marty Duren Jan. 3 on “Fox News Sunday,” in a roundtable discussion of talking heads, the subject turned to sports and Tiger Woods. And then it turned to Christianity. Woods, whose well-publicized string of admitted and supposed infidelities has…
Internet resources to help keep your resolutions
By Ken Satterfield What do you want to accomplish in the year ahead? January is a great time to start a resolution — Time magazine says nearly half of us will. So use this week to start the resolution you…
Christian unity and Baptist-Catholic conversations
By Beth Newman Since 2006, representatives from the Baptist World Alliance have held annual meetings with counterparts from the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. Each year has had a central focus and the dialogues have concerned, successively, Scripture,…
Postmodernism and the emerging church — right or wrong?
By Michael Clingenpeel Q: Our church just hired a pastor who is young enough to be the child of many members. His language about “the emerging church,” “postmodernism” and “interfaith dialogue” distresses older members. Communication and context seem to be…
A third — Baptist — way forward?
By David Gushee In December I was talking with a promising 30-something Christian who has moved into the Atlanta area. Our conversation strikes me as a good place to begin 2010 — because it has to do with the vitality…