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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...

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HERITAGE: A religious liberty champion

In 1872 Abram Poindexter, one of the giants among Baptists, a well-known evangelist and seasoned debater in public assemblies, died at the same time the Southern Baptist Convention was in its annual meeting. Richard Fuller, a powerful preacher of the…

OPINION: More progressive or more vision?

A recent Religious Herald article [July 29] analyzes new research that predicts a coming rise in the number of religious progressives relative to moderates and conservatives. The analysis is troubling to me for a number of reasons. First, it does…

VITAL SIGNS: We can do better

I recently spent a memorable and meaningful few days with a group of music ministers. Throughout our times of worship, breakouts and social interaction, I had many significant conversations with these men and women about their life in the 21st…

OPINION: The nature of conversion

This past June, during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s General Assembly in Greensboro, I had the privilege of attending a workshop led by Dr. Bill Leonard, one of my former Wake Forest professors. This workshop was titled “Take Me to the…

TRENDING: Continuous partial attention

Around the turn of the century, tech-industry veteran Linda Stone coined the term, “continuous partial attention.” This state is, in the words of her June interview in The Atlantic, “the modern predicament of being constantly attuned to everything without fully…

Swallowed or saved? When small churches merge with large ones

Some see the nation’s burgeoning church merger and multisite movements resulting from larger congregations preying on smaller ones, pressuring them into relinquishing buildings and land in exchange for survival. In some circles, that’s called “steeple-jacking.” But it’s also largely a…

EDITORIAL: The God we’d like to believe in

Curiously, S.E. Cupp, an atheist, has written a book taking issue with the treatment Christianity has received by what she calls a liberal media. The author of Losing Our Religion: The Liberal Media’s Attack on Christianity, Sarah Elizabeth Cupp, is…