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Creativity and contemplation

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Chris Robertson — 2 Comments ↓

In October of last year, I settled into my old Impala and drove to downtown Duluth, just outside of Atlanta. Filled with excitement, I pulled into the parking lot behind the Red Clay Theatre and checked my pocket to make…

Tagged with: Atlanta, Christ, Civil War, Decatur, Duluth, faith, Greek, Impala, Nashville, O Theo, Van Gogh
Posted in Art, Music, Social Issues, Spiritual Formation, Young Baptists

Andy Griffith’s kinder, gentler community

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Gary Furr — 2 Comments ↓

Andy Griffith died on the Outer Banks of his native North Carolina where he lived. A few years ago, I took my senior adults to the Outer Banks, and, other than seeing the place where “Nights of Rodanthe” was filmed…

Tagged with: Andy Griffith, Andy Taylor, Aunt Bee, Christianity and the arts, moral values, Opie Taylor, television, The Andy Griffith Show
Posted in Art, Faithful Living, Generational Differences, Media & Arts, Parenting, Technology & Church, TV

“The Blind Side” gets blindsided

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Gary Furr — 1 Comment ↓

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…

Tagged with: Baptists, ethics, Lifeway Bookstores, Michael Lewis, Michael Oher, Southern Baptist Convention, the arts, The Blind Side
Posted in Art, Books, Faithful Living, Media & Arts, Movies, Racial Reconciliation, Technology & Church, Theology

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Texas mission worker dead at 32
Mission Waco/Mission World director Seth Dorrell died unexpectedly of natural causes while on a mission trip to Mexico. […]
Internet video scrubbing alleged
A blogger who three years ago revealed discrepancies in the testimony of a speaker popular in SBC circles says a lawyer is now trying to erase evidence of past lies from the Internet. […]
In West, helpers become the helped
Accustomed to helping others, members of First Baptist Church and their neighbors in West, Texas, adjust to being the receivers of kindness. […]
Moderates among Baptists 'Loving West'
Congregations from across Texas are helping rebuild a city devastated by an April fertilizer plant explosion. […]

Don’t worry, gay Scouts, Southern Baptists still ‘love’ you
A recent decision to drop its ban on gay members has, overnight apparently, turned the Boy Scouts of America into a mission field. […]
A recipe for blended worship
Oil and water, obviously, will never mix. I have come to the same conclusion in these recent years of music ministry: that contemporary and traditional worship never mix -- well. […]
The illogical politics of abortion
Poor women are collateral damage in a war that anti-abortion activists launched against Planned Parenthood. […]

What happens when a church goes from a traditional worship service to a contemporary service overnight? #abpblog http://t.co/aBN9ZbM58r, 22 mins ago
Victims of the West, TX disaster used to help the homeless. Now they are the homeless. #HeartwarmingStoriesOfHope http://t.co/YAJkT5qeIU, 2 hours ago
"There are only two ways to raise your children: you either shut them down or you open them up." #abpblog http://t.co/9MslueECvB, 10 hours ago
"Like oil & water, contemporary and traditional worship never mix...well." #abpcommentaries http://t.co/hb0tCROUXj, 14 hours ago
Blogger who questioned upbringing of popular evangelist Ergun Caner now claims lawyer trying to scrub online videos http://t.co/9au3cYLfJc, Jun 19

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