A report published by the Houston Chronicle on February 10, 2019, raised the issue of sexual abuse as it relates to the Southern Baptist Convention and its participating churches. The report was disturbing in its content, but we support any effort to bring truth to light and to ease the suffering of victims of sexual […]
Mr. Platt goes to Washington
Why don’t more Southern Baptists have positions of influence in seats of power? I’ll admit I was a little disappointed when David Platt resigned as President of the International Mission Board. He has such passion “for the nations!” and I wanted to see how a young man, having endured a financial crisis and rightsizing of […]
Trending: The Greear Effect
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 […]
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