My mother, Mary Jim Patton Currie, was born on March 27, 1917. She died Dec. 20, 2011, at the age of 94. It’s amazing how much I still talk to her and how much she still talks to me through…
Significance, God and politics
On Oct. 5, I attended the memorial service for my friend of 46 years, Floyd Craig, in Nashville, Tenn. The memorial service was led by our mutual friend, David Sapp. All three of us met in 1978 when I started…
Re-read the Constitution
As I was watching my grandson play baseball a couple of weeks back, I spotted the following on the back of an acquaintance’s T-shirt: “The Constitution does not need to be rewritten; it needs to be re-read.” I thought to…
Former moderate Baptist leader parallels presidential race with SBC holy war
A leader in the moderate resistance to fundamentalist influence in the closing decades of the 20th century says he sees troubling similarities between today’s political climate and the era now commonly referred to as the Conservative Resurgence in the Southern…