The opening ceremony for the 1924 Summer Olympic Games in Paris stood in stark contrast to the spectacle we saw on Friday (July 26). That very staid ceremony featured the traditional parade of athletes through a stadium along with speeches and proclamations by Olympic Committee officials and politicians. One hundred years later, a regatta of […]
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ERLC’s Leatherwood wasn’t fired after all
Nashville, Tenn. | Brent Leatherwood appeared unemployed briefly on Monday, July 22. Then, in just few hours, the announcement of his firing was rescinded, and he was back in place as President and CEO of the SBC’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission “with our support moving forward,” an ERLC Executive Committee statement said early Tuesday. […]
FIRST-PERSON: The right decision for President Biden and America
Today, July 21, in an astonishing moment for American history, President Joseph Biden made the right decision for the country by announcing that he would no longer pursue his party’s nomination for president, allowing Democrats the ability to identify a new standard-bearer for the November election. The president’s announcement follows weeks of concern about his […]
Messengers leave Indy revved up
Indianapolis | Road crews wheeled their black boxes out the Indiana Convention Center doors onto Maryland Avenue. Messengers with their bright red convention bags in hand marched away toward their hotels, toward restaurants, toward home. The 166th annual Southern Baptist Convention was over. And while some no doubt felt disappointment that a candidate, a motion, […]
Budgeting to reach the world
Last December, not long after the Hamas attack on Israel, I wrote in this column about World War I, and how compassion for the physically devastated and spiritually lost people of Europe led Baptist churches to work together like never before to send missionaries and relief to the world. The 1925 Southern Baptist Convention then […]
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