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OPINION: Graceful ears

Even before my hair started to go and betray me, migrating lower on my face and body while my head began to show through up top, my ears have always extended at a quite profound angle. They are, in fact…

Tebowing, faith and culture wars

By Marv Knox How should Christians express their faith in a pluralistic world? This is the vital question implicit in – but overshadowed by – professional athlete Tim Tebow’s decision to speak, and then not to speak, at First Baptist…

NABF retools disaster-relief network

By Jeff Brumley The stream of volunteers coming through La Place, La., these days ebbs and flows, says Reid Doster, coordinator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Louisiana. A large group of Stetson University students is currently rehabbing some of…

HERITAGE: Faith, freedom and forgiveness

Great events assume a life of their own. It is true with weddings. They start small with the excitement of an engagement and little by little the plans develop. So it is with an event planned for three days in…

Rising stress boosts clergy depression

Bryan Hatcher was a Baptist pastor once, so he gets it when ministers buckle under the strain of long work weeks, budget pressures and that feeling of constantly being in a fish bowl. And because he has since provided years…

Free at last, but what happens now?

Men just released from state prisons in Huntsville, Texas, arrived by bus in Fort Worth and gathered at the Tarrant County Probation Office. But before they re-entered the free world, they heard straight talk from someone who understood what they…

LEADERSHIP LINK: How to make a hospital visit (or rather, how not to)

The following may be used as a role play during a deacon training period at a deacons’ meeting or a retreat. Sam Sickly has been ill for several weeks. For the past seven days, he has been in the local…

OUT LOUD

“We have stories about child molesters, murders and all kinds of vicious, barbaric acts of evil committed by heinous criminals on our front page, and yet we never receive a call from anyone saying ‘I don’t need my children reading…

Experts say debt, public opinion and other factors boost chances for depression in clergy

Free at last, but what now? Churches an help former inmates enter new life

EDITORIAL: The power of forgiveness to heal â€” and evangelize

“And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” — Jesus Mike Steenkamp sat erect in his South African home before the CNN camera and delivered a statement many are finding simplistic and confusing. In the…

Lindsey Graham spoke at Baptist church a week before his death

When leaders know better but choose a different path

On the death of Lindsey Graham

Farewell, Three Amigos