What does an astronaut do immediately after nine months in space? Go to church, of course. Butch Wilmore and his Space-X crewmate Suni Williams returned to earth after their epic and unplanned hermitage on the International Space Station March 18, and on March 23 Wilmore was back in church—giving thanks to God for his reunion […]
Reporter’s Notebook
New signs of the times
Several years ago, I asked our graphic designer to help me with a project. There was such a proliferation of pronouns at the time that I wanted him to take all the new ones and make a word cloud of them. There were 15 on the list. I planned to use the cloud with a […]
Connected despite time and distance
Who would guess that in one moment two Illinois churches deciding to cooperate with IBSA would discover a connection dating back nearly 100 years and stretching halfway around the world? But that is exactly what happened in November at the 2024 IBSA Annual Meeting. During a dinner for newly cooperating churches, each representative was asked […]
Separation of church and…debate?
A new poll of pastors’ preferences in the upcoming presidential election shows not only the divide between clergy in political terms, but also the difficulty in talking about politics, especially in church. Half of pastors indicated a preference for former President Donald Trump, one quarter (24%) chose Vice President Kamala Harris, but another quarter (23%) […]
Are Southern Baptists becoming a creedal people?
My “Wait! What?” moment during the proceedings at the 2024 Southern Baptist Convention was the proposal that the Convention add up to three creeds to the Baptist Faith and Message (2000). Wait! What? Baptists are not a creedal people. Why does anyone want to tack a creed or two or three to our statement of […]
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