By Bob Allen A new book self-described as “one part worst-case scenario and three parts God’s creative redemption,” about a church-bus tragedy that turned into a grassroots movement for doing good, cracked the Amazon Top 50 Christian Living Hot New…
Prof decries marginalization of Calvinists
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By Bob Allen A seminary professor denounced the marginalization of Calvinists in the Southern Baptist Convention at a breakfast gathering during the recent SBC annual meeting in New Orleans. Speaking at the 2012 Founder’s Breakfast, Tom Nettles, professor of historical…
What kind of church?
By Molly T. Marshall Making my way up I-35 from Fort Worth to Kansas City after the CBF gathering, I saw the following sign: “Going to hell? Ask Jesus into your heart. Be Saved. Contact a Christian-based church.” Any of…
Your own personal Jesus
By Starlette McNeill Personal Jesus is an app that can send more than 200 personal quotes from the Bible to your iPhone or iPad, utilizing an image of Jesus Christ. The application also allows you to share these words with…
Baptists who “do this”
Cooperative Baptists are Baptists who “do this” when they get together. They “do this” not only in their local churches but also in their assemblies and in the institutions of theological education with which they partner. I’m talking about the…
“The Blind Side” gets blindsided
Baptist news wires carried the story recently about a successful protest by a Baptist preacher to remove a movie from LifeWay stores. The movie is “The Blind Side,” starring Sandra Bullock. It was based on the book by the same…
The formation and reception of believer-theologians
But on the other hand…. My college philosophy professor Wallace Roark taught me that cultivating the capacity to “think on the other hand”—to Think Like an Octopus—is the key to becoming a good thinker. “But on the other hand” is…
Practicing theology
By Molly T. Marshall I probably should have done this before my third column, but I am delighted that Associated Baptist Press has invited me to write regularly, especially since they want me to engage the craft of thinking theologically…
The parable of the vineyard from the margins
By Miguel De La Torre One early morning, a certain vineyard owner sets out to hire laborers. He goes to the local bodega where laborers usually wait to be hired, negotiates a fair day’s wage and sends them to his…