Editor’s note: Each year, the Illinois Baptist team explores the trends that shaped 2018, and forecasts their effect on the coming year. The election of David Platt, then 35, to head the International Mission Board in 2014 prompted this question, but his departure this year means we have to ask it of another young leader, […]
Trending this year: SBC reinvention
Editor’s note: Each year, the Illinois Baptist team explores the trends that shaped 2018, and forecasts their effect on the coming year. There’s no time in living memory when there have been so many vacancies at the top of key SBC entities. The election of Paul Chitwood to the presidency of the International Mission Board […]
A prayer of Thanksgiving for 2018
(Editor’s note: For more than three decades, Chicago Tribune columnist Joan Beck annually penned a Thanksgiving essay recalling the year’s blessings. Her offering in free verse was a fan favorite and serves as our template, with input from the Illinois Baptist team.) As we gather together to ask the Lord’s blessings, 397 years after the […]
Supreme debate: How did we get here?
The plight of the young soccer players in Thailand trapped in a flooded cave for 16 days in July produced important questions: How did we get in this predicament? And more important, how do we get back? I found myself asking those questions while doing some research prior to the announcement of Brett Kavanaugh as […]
Wasted moments in Dallas
We could have talked about how SBC entities and churches handle allegations of sexual abuse. We could have talked about the value of women in the culture and their role in our churches and denomination. We could have talked about the direction of international missions, the SBC Executive Committee’s guidance of missions giving, and the […]
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