By Bill Leonard A Dec. 29 headline from Mediaite reads, “Gun Sales Soar following Newtown as Gun Advocates Rush to Stock Up.” Swamped with orders, one Idaho gun store manager was forced to disconnect his phones, because “We were swamped…
Idolatry and the AR-15
By Bill Leonard A Dec. 29 headline from Mediaite reads, “Gun Sales Soar following Newtown as Gun Advocates Rush to Stock Up.” Swamped with orders, one Idaho gun store manager was forced to disconnect his phones, because “We were swamped…
Idolatry and the AR-15
By Bill Leonard A Dec. 29 headline from Mediaite reads, “Gun Sales Soar following Newtown as Gun Advocates Rush to Stock Up.” Swamped with orders, one Idaho gun store manager was forced to disconnect his phones, because “We were swamped…
The illnesses of American Christianity
In his important new magnum opus, A Thicker Jesus, my friend Glen Stassen suggests that Christianity is ill in America, but in two very different ways. One form of Christianity is ill, according to Stassen, because it is essentially theologically and…
Baptist deaths in 2012
By Bob Allen Francis McBeth, an internationally acclaimed composer and conductor and longtime professor of music at Ouachita Baptist University, died Friday, Jan. 6, at age 78. Longtime Baptist journalist Jim Newton, 75, died Jan. 16 in Clinton, Miss., after a battle with…
Humility: A key to postmodern faith?
I never expected to land on humility as an emphasis of study in postgraduate work, but it makes sense. Ever since God called me to vocational ministry, I’ve been interested in the intersection of faith, academics and postmodern culture. Reflecting…
When food oppresses
Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth…
2012: A year in review
By Bob Allen Here are some of the top newsmakers of 2012 as reported by ABPnews. Obamacare Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler observed in January that Health and Human Services regulations, including pregnancy in “preventive services” that insurers…
God has never been truant
By Brent Walker At a time of national tragedy, we should all be praying, grieving and supporting those who suffered grievous loss. Then we must have a conversation, even a debate, followed by action to make sure what we saw…