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, […]
Reporter’s Notebook
We need another Blackaby
The lights went down in Georgia Dome and hushed the crowd. More than 20,000 were in attendance for the Southern Baptist Convention in June 1995. Out of the darkness, the lights beamed behind a lone figure on the platform, a kind of clumpy gray-haired man in a dark suit. The crowd gasped. It was Henry […]
Transformation must start with churches
Downtown Nashville was decked out for Christmas and as busy as ever when I arrived last month for a meeting of state ethics leaders hosted by the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC). Its offices are in the Southern Baptist Convention Building which sits just a few blocks away from the historic Ryman Auditorium, home […]
‘But not here’: Illinois’ cry one year after Roe ended
“A new and vibrant culture of life is being established in our nation after decades of death caused by Roe v. Wade,” the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s Brent Leatherwood said at the one-year anniversary of overturning Roe in June. “That is worth celebrating.” Culture of life? In other states perhaps, but not here. Not […]
What will keep us together, SBC?
If The Captain and Tennille were correct, love will keep us together. To employ an even more dated reference, “By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” Jesus said that, and John wrote it down about two thousand years ago. But do we dare ask, […]
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