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The canopy caught the wind. We slowly drifted toward the steel cable barrier that kept us a safe distance from the dam. Our anchors could not hold the 21’ pontoon boat from which we hoped to reach our limit of rainbow trout for the day. We pulled in our fishing lines. After firing up the motor, we fought the wind to free ourselves from the barrier.… Continue reading
The canopy caught the wind. We slowly drifted toward the steel cable barrier that kept us a safe distance from…
Martin Luther King Jr. is something of a Rorschach Test for Southern Baptists. Enter the recent MLK50 event co-sponsored by…
Recently a young friend mused in a text message, "Where are our (SBC) theologians?" His angst was palpable even if…
No matter what else goes on during a week in the life of a preacher, a pastor, Sunday always comes…
Just two weeks after the Parkland School Shooting my friend Mary Duren invited four people to contribute to a discussion…
Have you felt the shame? Facebook and Twitter posts aplenty called out to churchgoers they should find another church if the pastor did not preach on the issue of immigration on Father’s Day a couple of weeks ago.… Continue reading
It was the mute button. I am sure of it. We thought it was unmuted. Alas, there was not recording. … Continue reading
Emily Hunter McGowin agrees with me. Then she calls upon her experience and education to list several ways where a much more dangerous ideology affect “American evangelical culture and the SBC in partiular.”… Continue reading
Who knew there was another Littleton somewhere in the United States concerned about the current condition of the Southern Baptist Convention and its future? I didn’t. To say that we see things differently would not be distinctive enough.… Continue reading
Not once when watching a cartoon bullfight did the animators expose the truth of the event. It wasn’t a fair fight. At least it wasn’t when I went to my first and only bullfight in Madrid in about 2003.
Sitting in the open air coliseum, maybe half full, the first bull came out to challenge the young fighter. From the stands, it was hard to tell what the bull was wearing. And then someone explained, those are swords. What?! Where is the sport in that?
That year the Baptist World Alliance met in Madrid.
More than twenty years had passed … Continue reading
Have you felt the shame? Facebook and Twitter posts aplenty called out to churchgoers they should find another church if the pastor did not preach on the issue of immigration on Father’s Day a couple of weeks ago.… Continue reading
It was the mute button. I am sure of it. We thought it was unmuted. Alas, there was not recording. … Continue reading
Emily Hunter McGowin agrees with me. Then she calls upon her experience and education to list several ways where a much more dangerous ideology affect “American evangelical culture and the SBC in partiular.”… Continue reading
