Archive for Editor's Journal

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

by Russell D Moore
Elvis Presley sang about a “Blue Christmas,” and I’m not feeling so perky myself.
That’s not because my Christmas was depressing, far from it. It’s that the aftermath was.
We spent Christmas with our extended family back in Elvis’s homeland and mine, Mississippi. My four sons spent a little over a week romping through [...]

“THIS is a football.” Vince Lombardi said these words to remind his players that they needed to get back to the basics; so far back that the very fundamental notion of football should be considered. In a sense, this is precisely what needs to happen in preaching today.
From “communicating through narrative art” to “progressive [...]

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow far as the curse is found.
—Isaac Watts
Examination of the documents of the early church reveals that the early Christians did not officially or publicly celebrate the incarnation of Jesus Christ. Rather, they commemorated His death (not [...]