It is midnight. Not the kind of midnight measured by clocks. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that lingers long after the sun has risen. We all know this midnight. It is the midnight of the marriage...
Forbes Magazine shared 5 Hiring Trends to Watch last week which are especially helpful when translated to hiring trends for pastors. As I work with congregations seeking new pastoral leadership, it often feels like we are looking for pastors who fulfill dated…
More than enough Southern Baptist Convention missionaries and International Mission Board staff accepted incentives to step down voluntarily to balance the IMB budget without any forced termination of overseas personnel, board president David Platt announced Feb. 24. Addressing IMB trustees…
A representative body authorized to act on behalf of the Southern Baptist Convention between annual meetings voted Feb. 23 to remove a South Carolina church for allowing its pastor to conduct a same-sex wedding. The SBC Executive Committee, an 83-member…
Recently, Candyce Leonard brought to my attention a passage from John Cheever’s novel, Falconer, in which the narrator says of Farragut, the main character: “Food was a recently revealed truth in his life. He had reasoned that the Holy Eucharist…
Some evangelical leaders say Christians should avoid the Catholic lead in not proselytizing Jews, but a rabbi and Baptist minister say sincere relationship building is essential. Catholic and Jewish leaders recently exchanged documents affirming the authenticity of each other’s faiths….
When I entered as a full-time master of divinity student at Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary (now Palmer Theological Seminary) some 13 years ago, I was a dying breed. I was a 20-something who was able to commit to the standard…
