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Why you should care about the Second Baptist Houston lawsuit

A Houston megachurch has been in the news due to member concerns about the ways its bylaws were amended and governance was effectively removed from the congregation and entrusted to a small group handpicked by the senior pastor. While this...

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BTSR near $1 million campaign goal

By Robert Dilday Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond is only $100,000 shy of reaching its $1 million matching gifts goal, seminary administrators announced Feb. 14, adding they expected the campaign to be successfully concluded. BTSR president Ron Crawford (left) and…

Colson, George compare Obama health-care mandate to Nazis

By Bob Allen Two Baptist thinkers describe President Obama’s requirement that religious organizations include contraception in their employees’ health-care coverage as what some term a “Niemoeller moment” reminiscent of the slippery-slope devaluation of human rights that occurred in Nazi Germany….

Pastor’s killer still unfit to stand trial

By Bob Allen An Illinois judge ruled Feb. 10 that a man accused of murdering a Southern Baptist preacher in his pulpit nearly three years ago is mentally unfit to stand trial. Madison County Circuit Judge Richard Tognarelli said there…

HERITAGE: The lady had flair

Nell Collins Thompson had flair. She exuded it. She could have patented it. Her own inimitable style was upon everything she touched.  She used her flair in every phase of her life — her home, her classroom, her church work,…

TRENDING: The elderly become elders

Between the end of World War II in 1945 (returning scores of men to America) and the advent of the birth control pill in 1964 came the largest population boost in history, the famed Baby Boom. Sociologists call this the…

OUT LOUD

“When you are so prohibitively in debt to one particular lobbying group, that is a great concern. And it will be a great concern to many Southern Baptists because we believe gambling is a scourge. … And we certainly don’t…

VITAL SIGNS: Worship at Gate A3

Every congregation needs to be engaged in a healthy conversation about worship. Hopefully, it is at the heart of your identity, calendar and thought-life. As you face the future, one powerful question you must wrestle with is: “Of what value…

WINN RECOMENDS

Falling Upward, Richard Rohr (Jossey-Bass) Rohr speaks of life as something that comes in halves. These halves are not chronological but rather postures toward living. In the first half, we’re busy making something of our life, pulling together our identity,…

OPINION: Finding our future in our past

Although it is often messier than our present and at times even more uncertain than our future, the past must never be forgotten. Where would we be today without such champions of Baptist life as Roger Williams, Walter Rauschenbusch and…

LETTER: Women proclaiming the good news

I noted with interest, in the Feb. 6 issue of the Herald, the listing of churches participating in the Martha Stearns Marshall Month of Preaching by having a woman preach during the month of February. I salute all 19 Mid-Atlantic…

OPINION: Looking into Glass

When is having a repetitive song playing over and over again in your head for days not completely annoying? When it is the music of Phillip Glass’s opera Orphee. It is haunting and tragic with a spark of hope, beckoning…