Columns

Making the right call: Choosing a school is no small decision

March 6, 2018 By Illinois Baptist Staff

In this special section, Pastor Mark Warnock, formerly of Illinois, shares insights on picking a seminary. He also offers wisdom for how to avoid a common seminary pitfall. Read…

College Prep 101: Ready your student for life on campus

March 5, 2018 By Meredith Flynn

Administrators from Universities shared tips for preparing students for college before they get to campus. Their advice ranged from the practical—time management and making new friends, for example—to the spiritual. Read…

SBC rematch: We’ve been here before

March 1, 2018 By Eric Reed

J.D. Greear and Ken Hemphill will both run for president of the SBC. At issue: Will a rematch this time around be divisive? Comments by Gaines point to doubtful; comments by Richard Land say otherwise. Read…

Leadership developers

February 28, 2018 By Nate Adams

Almost always, those moments when I realized that I might be able to lead involved the recognition and encouragement of someone else. Leadership encouragers came alongside me to show me how to lead, and to support me. Read…

Why I miss Nellie

February 21, 2018 By Eric Reed

I hope in the Hebrews 12:1 cloud of witnesses, a picture of the packed stadium at an Olympics-style event, that there’s room for my mother-in-law and so many others still cheering us on toward the faithful completion of our own race. Read…

We need to talk about the dinosaurs

Chris Turner

I just wanted to know when dinosaurs lived. That’s it. That was the most profound biblical mystery swirling in my head when I began seminary. I landed in the survey class of a professor considered one of the Southern Baptist Convention’s foremost Old Testament scholars at the time. Surely, he’d know about dinosaurs. About 15 […]

A response to physician-assisted suicide

Jeremy Bell

(Editor’s note: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is considering signing SB 1950, a bill passed Oct. 31 as House Floor Amendment No. 2 to the Sanitary Food Preparation Act by the state senate, that would allow physicians to help terminally ill patients end their lives. If he does, Illinois will join 11 states and the District […]