Editor’s note: David Dockery is theologian-in-residence at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and former president of Trinity International University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill. Perhaps in recent weeks you have been given the opportunity to sing “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing,” one of Charles Wesley’s great Christmas carols. The angels sing, “Glory to […]
A tribute to J. I. Packer
James Innell Packer was born in Twyning, Gloucestershire, England, July 22, 1926. Due to a serious injury when he was 7 years old, Packer’s youth focused on reading, writing and music rather than sports or other activities. He hoped for a bicycle for his 11th birthday but was given a typewriter instead. Though initially disappointing […]
A rich, but neglected inheritance: What Baptists have forgotten (or never knew) about our heritage
Why should Baptists pay attention to the many events taking place to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the Reformation? Many of our core convictions as Baptists have been influenced or shaped by those 16th-century thinkers. Read…