We appeared totally to have forgot the business for which we were sent. We adopted principles which would be right and proper, only on the supposition that there were no State governments at all.
Luther Martin – Maryland Delegate to the Constitutional Convention 1787
The very idea that any federalized system of government could ever trump that [...]
Seeking Renewal: Will the GCR Change the SBC?
GCR Task Force Interim Progress Report
I have just returned from Nashville where the interim progress report was presented to the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention. Before a capacity crowd, Dr. Ronnie Floyd, the Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Springdale, AR and Chairman of the GCRTF presented the report. He was assisted at the podium by [...]
Great Commission Taskforce Report
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Editor’s Journal: All Eyes on Nashville
Governance of the Southern Baptist Convention’s infrastructure takes place on many levels in many ways. To an outsider unfamiliar with the SBC, the maze of agencies, commissions, entities and conventions run together to form a massive American religious phenomenon. Levels of autonomous churches willingly cooperate to create autonomous organizations that, in turn, create more autonomous [...]
OBU trustees chart future course for faculty salaries
Of the more than 4,400-degree granting colleges in the United States, more than 700 of them bear a distinct religious affiliation. Some are a shadow of what they once were when a particular church or denomination founded them many years ago. Others are finding a new resurgence in a distinctly Christian identity that seeks to [...]
Editor’s Journal: Haiti and the Cross
As the dust settles on the recent horrors in Haiti, secular man has begun to think of the sacred. Frantically searching for the key to unlock the mystery of why this earthquake happened, 21st-Century America wonders what lies beyond the door of the unseen. Exactly what does all of this mean, and what does this [...]
Editor’s Journal: The deadly seriousness of evangelism
Twenty-one years ago today the earthly life of Jeffrey Lee Modlin suddenly came to an end when he was only 19 years of age. Early in life, Jeffrey possessed a natural aptitude for music and began playing the trumpet in elementary school. As a member of the Jack Hayes Junior High School Band, his bedroom [...]
Racism and the SBC: Does the Legacy Continue?
Each year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Ken Fentress’ thoughts often turn toward the Bible, the church, the Southern Baptist Convention and the history of racial issues. All these things are critically linked together in a history that is, at least for him, both encouraging and challenging at the same time.
When Fentress was a [...]
Embryos and Abortions: The Battle Continues
The young medical students clad in blue scrubs who sat down to eat pizza in the large East Lecture Hall at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) were met with a serious topic. The topic at hand sparked much discussion among them as they anticipated the lunch time lecture.
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor [...]
Editor’s Journal: Death becomes us
“Resolved, to think much on all occasions of my own dying, and of the common circumstances which attend death.” Resolution #9 of Jonathan Edwards.
I travelled Highway 425 in Louisiana hundreds of times as I returned home from college at Louisiana State University. This stretch of road is a trip back in time as you can [...]
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