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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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Missionaries heading from East to West

By Vicki Brown The traditional view of missions is Western Christians sending missionaries to nations in the East and South, but these days missionary work is more of a two-way street, with missionaries coming from Africa, Asia and Latin America…

Fulfilling the Great Commission

By Ken Camp Churches composed primarily of first-generation immigrants to the United States often face obstacles — linguistic, financial and cultural — in terms of fitting into an Anglo-dominated society. But they may possess a strategic advantage in fulfilling Christ’s…

SBC leader criticizes Komen reversal

By Bob Allen The head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s publishing house said Feb. 3 that Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s reversal of a decision to disassociate from Planned Parenthood means that pink-bound Holman Christian Standard Bibles taking up…

TRENDING: Designer faith, part 2

Rugged individualism is the sea we Americans swim in. Our culture is about the rags-to-riches Horatio Alger, the pioneering Daniel Boone and more recently the iconic dissenter Steve Jobs. John Chandler Classic Baptist doctrinal distinctives of “the priesthood of every…

WINN RECOMMENDS

Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand (Random House) In 1943, Louis Zamperini planned to be preparing for the Olympics. Instead, he was shot down over the Pacific Ocean, enduring weeks adrift at sea, fighting off sharks, starvation and Japanese fighters reigning down bullets….

OUT LOUD

“Sometimes on Sunday mornings, the elderly ladies as they’re coming through the line at the end of the service, they’ll say, ‘Hey, look at my shoes today.’ Sometimes that’s the entry point into a much deeper level of conversation. Sometimes…

VITAL SIGNS: Which parking spot for you?

Among the critical questions every minister and staff needs to ask as we begin a new year is this one: Which parking spot will you choose? Clearly, this question needs to be put in its proper context. My father was…