By Derik Hamby This past May I traveled to a preaching conference in Denver. To save expenses I stayed outside the city and traveled in on light rail each morning and back each evening. The trip lasts about 45 minutes…
Baptist politics and the BGAV
By Derik Hamby I personally do not know Brad Hoffman or Nancy Stanton McDaniel. Both are now candidates for the Baptist General Association of Virginia presidency. That last sentence was hard to type. “Candidates” is a strange word for those…
Choosing sides, teams or labels in the CBF serves no purpose
A recent BNG article reported a seminary professor’s comments on the “moderate” label for some in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. In the 1990s I was a student at Southern Seminary in Louisville. The Southern Baptist Convention decided to create a…
OPINION: What Baptists can learn from Twinkies
(ABP) — Hostess Cup cakes are going out of business. Twinkies, Zingers and all the rest are endangered species. Hoarders are buying boxes and putting them on eBay. True fans are hoping someone will buy them soon. The blame for…
OPINION: Somebody’s daughter
I was at my daughter’s school when her teacher asked, “Did you see what your daughter wrote? All the teachers are coming down to read it.” My daughter is 7 years old and in the first grade and anything she…
OPINION: Warning, this sermon may be X-rated
Mega-church preacher Ed Young Jr. is challenging married couples in his church and beyond to conduct a “sexperiment” — to have sex for seven straight days as a way to improve their marriage. Videos promoting Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting…
OPINION: Warning, this sermon may be X-rated
Mega-church preacher Ed Young Jr. is challenging married couples in his church and beyond to conduct a “sexperiment” — to have sex for seven straight days as a way to improve their marriage. Videos promoting Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting…
Opinion: Warning, this sermon may be X-rated
(ABP) – Mega-church preacher Ed Young Jr. is challenging married couples in his church and beyond to conduct a “sexperiment” – to have sex for seven straight days as a way to improve their marriage. Videos promoting Sexperiment: 7 Days…
Opinion: The real royals
Many folks were glued to their TV sets watching the events of the Royal Wedding. My 6-year-old daughter was amazed. She thought princes and princesses were only in her Disney movies. She said, “Daddy, I am going to have to…