It’s just the Wild West out there right now,” a colleague declared of the Twitterverse, as Baptists registered their opinions on new reports of sexual abuse and the failure of Southern Baptists to stop perpetrators’ movement among churches. Then the Internet mostly applauded the recommendations by SBC President J.D. Greear’s study committee to address sexual […]
Eric Reed
Church life in shrinking Illinois
Hard times hit the publishing industry in the early 2000’s. The president of Christianity Today International, for whom I worked at the time, called the confluence of 9/11, falling ad sales, and the rise of the internet “whitewater.” Apparently he enjoyed rafting, but he knew the river crashing against the rocks as placid waters turned […]
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 […]
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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