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The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist

As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have...

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Englishman brings King’s dream to stage

ATLANTA (ABP) – Douglas Tappin’s dream has taken him from London to Atlanta and from the practice of law to writing an acclaimed new musical about another dreamer — Martin Luther King Jr. -– all via a degree from a…

Assessing conflict in churches

By Bill Wilson So what do we make of the rising tide of conflict in local congregations? First of all, is there actually an increase in conflict? Anecdotally, the number of calls and conversations we are having around conflict seem…

Day 5 in Haiti: Rain at last

(Editor’s note: Norman Jameson returned from a week in Haiti Aug. 30 to report on the work of North Carolina Baptist groups working in the aftermath of that nation’s devastating Jan. 12 earthquake. This is the fifth of several daily…

HERITAGE: Light in the forest

Virginia Baptists early established relationships with Indians. John Leland, arguably the most prominent of the 18th-century Virginia Baptist itinerant preachers, wrote that in the 1780s he preached in the “royal pavilion” of an Indian chief, John Tohan.  Leland said: “After…

VITAL SIGNS: Assessing conflict in churches

So what do we make of the rising tide of conflict in local congregations? First of all, is there actually an increase in conflict? Anecdotally, the number of calls and conversations we are having around conflict seem to indicate that…

OUT LOUD

“For many people who do not understand Islam, Muslims do not appear in the Western media to act in a way that let them believe that Islam is a religion of peace. So there is a certain cognitive dissonance here….