By Roger Lovette Somewhere I read of a young man who in a fit of rage killed his father. That night when everyone was asleep in the jail, the jailer heard the boy sobbing: “I want my Father. I want…
Dads, sons share call to ministry
By Jeff Brumley The reaction never varies when someone realizes Alan Sherouse is the son of well-known Baptist preacher Craig Sherouse. “They always say, ‘Oh, you’re Craig’s son,’” said Sherouse, pastor of Metro Baptist Church in Manhattan. “I call it…
One-eared Mickey
By Felicia Fox I have been in youth ministry for over 12 years. In college I was introduced to the One-Eared Mickey Mouse Model of youth ministry. I ran into it again while earning my master’s of divinity with a…
‘The Avengers’ a metaphor for the church
By Amy Butler As a loving parent interested in knowing what my children like, my ongoing and increasingly unsuccessful attempts to understand the teen-aged mind led me last week to go with them to see the new movie The Avengers….
‘The Avengers’ a metaphor for the church
By Amy Butler As a loving parent interested in knowing what my children like, my ongoing and increasingly unsuccessful attempts to understand the teen-aged mind led me last week to go with them to see the new movie The Avengers….
Reading the Bible in pink and blue
By Vicki Brown Does God have prescribed roles for men and women, and does he require those roles to be filled in specific ways? Many evangelicals, including Baptists, are divided into two camps on this issue – “complementarian” and “egalitarian.”…
Women seek God’s will at home, church
By Vicki Brown Married nearly five years, Courtney Fenton of Hannibal, Mo., wanted to be married but wasn’t sure she wanted to have children. But the day she married, “something switched” in her brain and the desire for little ones…
Pastors juggle ministry, motherhood
By Jeff Brumley Mothers’ Day 2012 will dawn with more women than ever in Baptist pulpits. But even those who welcome the trend say the corresponding ascension of the minister mom is creating tensions, too, within families, and the hearts…
Mom, Dad, I love you. Stop fighting.
By Laura Rector Divorce hurts children. My grandparents’ divorce still hurts their children and their grandchildren to this day — even though both have been dead for years. Certainly, the pain has lessened in time, but the wound is still…