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At this VBS, a skit simulates a violent execution

“Take him out! Blow him up! Take him out! Blow him up!” the children chant during a vacation Bible school program at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington, Ky. With eerie music looming over the scene, the viral TikTok video...

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Theological education that works

Theological education is just beginning to catch up with changing needs of churches and culture that must be addressed if seminaries and divinity schools expect to survive. I received my first seminary degree 42 years ago this month. There is…

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Transitions ON THE MOVE James R. Hunter, to Peakland Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Va., as senior pastor. David Anderson, to Chestnut Level Baptist Church, Blairs, Va., as pastor. He is the former pastor of Piney Grove Baptist Church, Williamston, N.C. David…

OUT LOUD

“Jesus was about ethics. The Sermon on the Mount was about ethics. I don’t think you can believe in Jesus and not believe in ethics.” Roger Olson The scholar was recently named to fill the Foy Valentine Endowed Professorship in…

LEADERSHIP LINK: Stewardship in February?

Since the budgets of most churches run concurrently with the calendar year, the middle of February is a good time to check how receipts are tracking with expectations. Are the offerings and the anticipated receipts matching pretty well? If not,…

OPINION: For the walking dead

On Friday, my friend Tori Lane held a benefit to raise money for HEART, a program of healing for victims of sexual assault. As a poet and visual artist, Tori thinks in metaphors and striking images. As a performer, she…

EDITORIAL: An old question recast

Some of you, like me, are old enough to remember Flip Wilson and his comic assertion, “The devil made me do it.” Now there seems to be research that backs up this claim. Well, maybe not the devil, exactly, but…