Wednesday, June 19, 2013 Commentaries

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.

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Tuesday, June 18, 2013 Commentaries

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.  

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Monday, June 17, 2013 Commentaries

The illogical politics of abortion

Poor women are collateral damage in a war that anti-abortion activists launched against Planned Parenthood.

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Friday, June 14, 2013 Thinking Theologically

Re-imagining disability

A new theology of disability envisions a Body of Christ where all have a place.

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Thursday, June 13, 2013 Talk With the Preacher

Back from the bridge

They say hindsight is 20/20. That’s really just a nice way to say that you can only begin to make sense of some of life’s hardest moments when you can see them in the rear view mirror. From really far away.

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013 Commentaries

A modest proposal for a fractured Baptist family

Various Baptist groups spun off during the Southern Baptist Convention inerrancy battle 30 years ago aren’t going to reunite, but they all share one common need.

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Tuesday, June 11, 2013 Vital Signs

Change happens

Gloom-and-doom scenarios for the church usually overlook a vital truth: things can change.

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Monday, June 10, 2013 Commentaries

Honoring the real Lottie Moon

Lottie Moon concluded she must listen to God rather than the traditionalists of her day.

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Friday, June 7, 2013 Commentaries

May God deny you peace

A charge delivered June 5 to the 2013 graduating class at Iliff School of Theology.

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Thursday, June 6, 2013 Commentaries

What happened to the Baptists?

Will Campbell, a farmer, author and social activist who died June 3 at age 88, brought characteristic wit and wisdom to these remarks to directors, staff and friends of Associated Baptist Press on Oct. 27, 1994.

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Wednesday, June 5, 2013 Commentaries

Son of Amite County, child of God

A professor who wrote his doctoral dissertation on Will Campbell reflects on the passing of the maverick preacher and Baptist prophet June 3.

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Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Can I Get a Witness?

The freedom of Will

Will Campbell was obsessed with grace, especially as it falls on inappropriate people at inopportune times.

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Monday, June 3, 2013 Commentaries

Shaming women into silence

The early church provided equality to women for church leadership, only to have -- within a short time -- the gospel message distorted to justify women’s subordination to men.

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Friday, May 31, 2013 Vital Signs

The oxbow church

Churches that resist change risk being cut off from the main stream of culture.

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Thursday, May 30, 2013 Talk With the Preacher

A safe space to be vulnerable

Creating healthy communities that nurture vulnerability can be a great gift of the church.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Thinking Theologically

Praying and working

Prayer is an essential form of work, and it must not be gainsaid as wishful thinking.

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Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Commentaries

Recovering spiritual vitality

The greatest impediment to congregational spiritual vitality is the belief we know how to do church.

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Friday, May 24, 2013 Commentaries

Where was God in Okla. twister?

Such questions are natural in difficult times, but victims must realize God doesn't punish through such calamities.

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Thursday, May 23, 2013 Can I Get a Witness?

Christian 'nones'?

Churches ditching their denominational names must be careful not to throw out their historic Christian identities, too.

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Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Commentaries

Why must children suffer?

The twister in Moore, Okla., killed at least nine children, but there is something Christians can do about the suffering of innocents.

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