When we — Baptists and Methodists — were all evangelical

By Timothy George This coming Sunday, Reformation Day, many Baptists will join millions of other Protestant believers around the world in celebrating an event that took place on Oct. 31, 1517. On that day, an obscure Augustinian monk named Martin…

By Joseph Perdue This Sunday, Oct. 31, marks the 493rd anniversary of the most famous (or infamous, depending on one’s perspective) protest in the history of Western Christianity. An Augustinian monk named Martin Luther nailed a scholarly work to the…

By David Wilkinson Another Baptist editor has been ushered out. And that thud you hear is another door to Baptist freedom slamming shut behind him. Technically, Norman Jameson is still editor of the Biblical Recorder of North Carolina, one of…

  By Bob Setzer As a Baptist boy growing up in the South, Halloween was one of my favorite holidays. It was the one time of year my preferred sins were sanctioned: gluttony (especially of the chocolate variety) and getting…

By R. Kevin Johnson In a few days, many Christians in the Western traditions of the church will celebrate All Saints’ Day. This feast originated in fifth-century Syria to commemorate martyrs. It is celebrated on November 1 to correspond with…

By Joe LaGuardia  “We are against Halloween,” one minister recently told me. This is a common response I get from folks in the church. That, and: “We are against homosexuals, abortion, environmentalists, liberals, social-gospel types, postmodernists, illegal immigrants, people who…