(Editor’s note: While ABP Executive Director David Wilkinson’s “After the -30-” column normally is published every other Friday, technical difficulties prevented it from being posted on its normal schedule last Friday.) By David Wilkinson At our house, hospitality is…
Turkey and the end of history
By Jim Denison Are we seeing the beginning of World War III? Turkey recently approved 26 amendments to its national constitution. Voters passed measures to guarantee gender equality and protect children, the disabled and the elderly. Nearly 36 million people,…
More doors closed to Baptists
(Editor’s note: This commentary is a republished version of one of four content items, originally posted on ABPnews.com on Sept. 16, that were lost due to a hacker attack on our website later that evening.) By Norman Jameson Being a denominational journalist…
Ezell faces enormous challenges
By Charlie Warren Kevin Ezell has been elected as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board. It is a crucial time in NAMB’s history. I sincerely hope he has many very successful years of leading Southern Baptists…
Competing Christianities
By David Gushee There was only one Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God. But, sadly, there is not one “Christianity.” There are instead competing Christianities. This conviction burned bright for me last week when trying to figure out our…
An inevitable test of Christian faith
By Marv Knox Twenty years ago, a good friend and neighbor languished in a hospital bed, dying of leukemia at age 36. He grew up in the Deep South, the product of a Christian home and a Baptist church. He…
Loving Muslims
By Joseph Perdue “Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away at its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly…
Whose God are we talking about?
By Bob Setzer On Tuesday and Thursday mornings, bright and early at 8 a.m. sharp, I teach “Introduction to the Old Testament” at Mercer University. Recently, I gave my students an assignment: “When you say ‘God,’ Who or What do…
Chilean miners, cell phones and the community of God
By Jim Denison In 25 years, the cell phone that now fits in your pocket will fit in a blood cell. In three years, a computer will exist that possesses the computational power of the human brain. By 2049, a…