Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...

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Trafficking: False promises, desperation lure woman

GREENSBORO, N.C. (ABP) — With five children to feed after her husband died “Rebecca” faced dreary prospects in Cameroon. There are no jobs in that African nation located just above the equator on the western coast. Still, she was…

Confession from a consultant

By Bill Wilson Time for a confession. Let me tell you a consultant’s dirty little secret: congregational strategic planning is frequently a waste of time and can be counterproductive. There, it’s out. Now, it’s time to explain. Many congregations, for…

Always reforming

By Bill Leonard Ecclesia Semper Reformanda, so the saying goes, “the church is always reforming.” Those words came to mind last week when I heard sociologist-prophet-iconoclast Tony Campolo preach at the New Baptist Covenant II meeting, that multiracial effort at…

Responding to child abuse

By Jim Denison On Nov. 14 the Associated Baptist Press published an essay I wrote on Herman Cain and Joe Paterno. Here’s the background behind my article. I write a cultural commentary for our ministry each weekday morning based on…

Discovery may cause biblical rewrite of King Herod

HERITAGE: Big day at two churches

It was a crisp, cool, cloudless day on Oct. 2 for the 125th anniversary celebration at Big Island Baptist Church in Bedford County, Va. The distinctive temple-like church building had been spruced up for the big day. The menfolks had…

High school students have chance to explore religion in 2012 campaign

WASHINGTON — Teenagers are being offered an opportunity to engage what has emerged as one of the most vexing questions in the 2012 presidential campaign: Is it fair to evaluate a candidate by his or her religious faith? The Religious…

St. Louis ‘Covenant’ event opens with worship, ends with ministry

ST. LOUIS — The regional meeting of the New Baptist Covenant II hosted by St. Luke Memorial Baptist Church in St. Louis began with a spirited worship service and an estimated crowd of about 500 on Nov. 17 and concluded…

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Web streaming adds to NBC II participation

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Viewings of the New Baptist Covenant II weren’t restricted to satellite feeds. The sessions also were streamed on the internet. In at least two locations in North Carolina — at First Baptist Church in Asheville and at…

OUT LOUD

“Christianity cannot be ‘Naganized’ without making Christ, in a sense a Naga, by clothing him with Naga traditional signs and symbols, by worshipping him with Naga songs music and dance. Christianity in Nagaland is not yet rooted in Naga culture.”…