By Ken Camp Social media may link people across the globe, while at the same time segmenting them generationally, one of American’s foremost scholars on technology and the church told an April 29 gathering at Baylor University’s George W. Truett…
Radio host blasts SBC president
By Bob Allen A Bible-prophecy broadcaster criticized Southern Baptist Convention President Fred Luter for retracting comments made in an interview on his radio show linking North Korea’s nuclear threat to America’s slide into immorality. “Poor pastor Luter, he wilted under the…
Flying Queens ruled women’s hoops
By Bob Allen With most eyes in women’s college basketball trained on Baylor’s 6-8 shot-blocking, slam-dunking phenom Brittney Griner, the current Texas Monthly carries a feature about a lesser-known Baptist General Convention of Texas-affiliated powerhouse that is the winningest women’s…
Singer skirts Boy Scout controversy
By Bob Allen Entertainer Charlie Daniels stepped gingerly into controversy over the Boy Scouts of America reconsidering its ban on gays at a local Boy Scouts fundraiser March 20 in Tennessee. “I definitely have feelings about it, but I’m not…
Prof shares passion for film
By Linda Brinson If Noel Manning were a betting man, he’d have an edge in predicting the winners at the Oscar awards ceremony Sunday night, Feb. 24. As a voting member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Manning evaluated most…
Tebow’s FBC, Dallas, date criticized
By Bob Allen The New York media found headline material in NFL player Tim Tebow accepting an invitation to speak at a Southern Baptist mega-church in Dallas whose pastor has in the past created controversy with public comments on gays,…
Baptist church sign wows NYC, media
By Jeff Brumley “Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.” Thus read the sign recently in front of Madison Avenue Baptist Church, a New York City congregation whose pastor is all about convincing folks…
Wild Goose 2013 dates announced
By Bob Allen Dates and venue have been announced for Wild Goose 2013, an annual festival of music, spirituality, social justice and art for progressive evangelicals under a theological and missional tent commonly known as “emergent Christianity.” First held in…
Online security of the believer
By Bob Allen All Christians confess that Jesus is Lord, but he’s a poor choice for a computer password, according to an annual listing of passwords on the Internet most prone to hacking. “Jesus” for the first time made the…