By Pete Maycock I recently went to join in a New Year’s Day worship service in a refugee camp on the Thailand-Burma border. The trip did not quite go according to plan. After nearly 10 hours in the car we…
Martin Luther King and a theology of liberation
By Marty Duren This past Monday, Jan. 17, marked the 24th year since the first official observance of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday as a national holiday. It seems some are still struggling to get it right. This year, King’s…
Why do Baptists associate?
(Editor’s note: Neville Callam, general secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, recently spoke to leaders of the North American Baptist Fellowship, one of the BWA’s six regional fellowships, in Dallas. He discussed how one of his goals in discussing the…
Pat Robertson, Haiti and the devil, Part III
(Editor’s Note: This is the final of three special opinion pieces by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison on Pat Robertson’s comments about the Haitian earthquake disaster. The first was published Jan. 14, and the second on Jan. 15. Denison’s regular…
Haiti, Pat Robertson, and the instinct to explain evil
By David Gushee Thousands of Haitians were dead, millions were displaced, and Pat Robertson responded last week by saying, “Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the…
Pat Robertson, Haiti and the devil, Part II
(Editor’s Note: This is the second of three special opinion pieces by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison on Pat Robertson’s comments about the Haitian earthquake disaster. The first was published Jan. 14. Denison’s regular FaithLines column will continue to be…
Pat Robertson, Haiti and the devil, Part I
(Editor’s Note: This is the first of three special opinion pieces by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison on Pat Robertson’s comments about the Haitian earthquake disaster. Denison’s regular FaithLines column will continue to be published every other Monday, with the…
Brit Hume, Buddhism, and grace
(Editor’s Note: This is the second of two special opinion pieces on the Brit Hume-Tiger Woods controversy by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison. The first piece was published Jan. 12. Denison’s regular FaithLines column will continue to be published every…
Brit Hume, Tiger Woods and evangelism
(Editor’s Note: This is the first of two special opinion pieces on the Brit Hume-Tiger Woods controversy by ABP Senior Columnist Jim Denison. The second part will be published tomorrow, Jan. 13. Denison’s regular FaithLines column will continue to be…
Homegrown terrorism and the presence of God
By Jim Denison On Christmas Day, a Dutch filmmaker prevented what would likely have been the worst act of terrorism on American soil since Sept. 11, 2001. As you probably know by now, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old son of…
Guantanamo turns eight
By David Gushee Eight years ago today (Jan. 11), the United States government transported the first prisoners from Afghanistan to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. On January 22, 2009, the new President, Barack Obama, stated that Guantanamo would…
In 2010, be a part of life’s solutions
By Bill Webb In case you hadn’t noticed, the year 2009 ended leaving a lot of us a bit uneasy. And many aren’t anticipating a reversal of trends — especially negative ones — for 2010. The economic crisis in the…