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Bailes holds a Master of Divinity from Wake Forest University School of Divinity. He is the Editor of Crazy Liberals and Conservatives, a website dedicated to engaging the intersection of faith and public life.

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What if Jesus were gay?

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Zachary Bailes — 39 Comments ↓

Wendell Berry has effectively stirred the pot. In my homestate, Kentucky, at my alma mater, Georgetown College, Berry spoke about gay marriage. He spoke to the cultural palpitations revealing a diseased spirit. It’s a spirit steeped in hate, and maligned…

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Posted in Marriage, Public Policy, Racial Reconciliation, Religion, Social Issues, Young Baptists

How to Kill a Church

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 20 Comments ↓

A prefatory note: This brief story was written based on conversations I’ve had with ministers, laypeople and leaders, young and old, rich and poor, and those no longer visiting church.  It was a cold, December day and though the Nativity scene was brightly…

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Posted in Spiritual Formation

Grassroot campaigns and the Church

Posted on November 15, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 1 Comment ↓

“The Kingdom of God is like a grassroots political campaign,” said Jesus, never. If I were a betting man (and I’m not) I would be willing to wager that had Jesus known about grassroots campaigning that’s exactly what he would have used.…

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Posted in Public Policy

‘Those people’ and the 47 percent

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 9 Comments ↓

“There are 47 percent who are with him [Obama], who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims…My job is not to worry about those people.” —   Mitt Romney Mitt Romney got shellacked. When Romney’s fundraiser video was…

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Posted in Public Policy, Spiritual Formation

Southern Seminary VP Impedes Tolerance

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 12 Comments ↓

My jaw nearly slapped the ground when I read the words. They bellowed from Mark Coppenger, vice president for extension education and director of Southern Seminary’s extension center in Nashville, Tenn. Recently he sat on a panel that discussed the…

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Obama issues altar call —young people respond

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 11 Comments ↓

As Obama spoke at the Democratic National Convention, Twitter commenced nearly exploding.  According to Twitter, as Obama spoke there were 52,757 tweets per minute; Romney had 14,289 tweets per minute. Tweets won’t win the White House, but they reveal that…

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Romney and ‘war’ on religion

Posted on September 5, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 21 Comments ↓

“There is a religious war going on in this country,” former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan told the 1992 Republican convention in a primetime address. Mitt Romney has declared that President Obama is waging a war on religion. Whether one actually…

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Can corporations walk the aisle?

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — No Comments ↓

As the race for the White House heats up with Paul Ryan’s Republican VP nod, questions concerning corporate political involvement remain. Crucial to the debate around corporate political funding are two words: Citizens United. They refer to the landmark, 2010…

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What beer can teach the church

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 10 Comments ↓

The local church isn’t the only institution faced with making difficult decisions in the turbulent, 21st century. Beer companies are facing a changing landscape as well. Except it appears that out of the changing market, the beer industry has found…

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Posted in Ministry, Spiritual Formation

Do we really care about senior adults?

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — No Comments ↓

First, a disclaimer: I’ve never experienced life as an “old” person. Like many of my fellow young Americans, I do not ponder what life will be like at 80. Though firsthand experience of old age escapes me, startling statistics around…

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Posted in Generational Differences, Missions, Public Policy, Social Issues

Our rhetorical Civil War

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 3 Comments ↓

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.” —Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, 1861 So it was then, March, 4, 1861, that Lincoln uttered these words to a struggling, soon-to-be-divided United States. We hear these words 151…

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Posted in Faithful Living, Public Policy, Social Issues

Loch Ness Found in Classrooms

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 3 Comments ↓

Seeing isn’t believing; believing is seeing—at least when it comes to the Loch Ness Monster. As it turns out, students in private Christian schools across Louisiana use textbooks that claim the monster was a dinosaur that existed at the same…

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Posted in Public Policy, Social Issues, Theology

Welcome the moneychangers?

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Zachary Bailes — 1 Comment ↓

Although Jesus did through the moneychangers from the Temple, perhaps we would be well served to welcome them back. With summer nearly, officially, underway not only have beautiful flowers, graduations, and Romney/Obama attack advertisements arrived, but a so too has…

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