By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector I have some words of advice for members of Faith in America, a North Carolina-based advocacy organization. Don’t hold your breath. And, if you really want to do yourself a favor, don’t waste your time and money. Members of this organization plan to picket the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention next week in Phoenix, seeking to persuade messengers and leaders to remove
By David Evans TBMB Evangelism Specialist A problem exists within cultural Christianity that pertains to the steps of the Christian faith. If a child is raised in a Christian home, sometimes that child is raised as a “Christian.” The child acts, thinks, and talks like a Christian without having to make any type of surrender in their life. The reflection of Christianity goes as far as to make sure the
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector No one knows you better than your spouse. You can put on a “front” when you leave home, but at the house, not so much. God has blessed me with a wonderful wife for almost 36 years. Joyce always has been a wonderful support and encouragement to me over the years. But she also knows the meaning of “tough love.” I recently had
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R A margin is a boundary, a border, or an edge. To be in the margin in printing or in life means to be close to the limit of value or usefulness — to be of minor effect or importance. In society — since 1970 — to be marginalized refers to a person, group, or thing treated as unimportant, powerless, less desirable, insignificant, or peripheral.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector The secular world is always quick to point out the faults of Christians in general and Baptists in particular. But they don’t always give Baptists credit for the things Baptists do well. And one of those “things” is quickly responding to people’s needs. On Saturday night, May 27, straight-line winds swept through Carson Springs Baptist Conference Center in Newport, downing numerous trees, including
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector “All good things must come to an end.” That sounds like the kind of “consolation” my tough-minded, unsentimental, plain-spoken mother, Emeline Glessner Davis, would give me and my two sisters in times of disappointment. Helping my mom raise us were members of First Baptist Church, El Reno, Okla., many of whom were just as tough-minded. They left an indelible impression on
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There are moments in life that are so obviously important that they need not scream to be recognized. The magnitude of their presence halts the daily hustle and quietly demands that we notice, and reflect, and determine that the nostalgic moment becomes a prelude to something greater. I believe God has granted to Tennessee Baptists such a poignant moment and we
By Jake McCandless Baptist Press MOUNT VERNON, Ark. (BP) — Attendance numbers, professions of faith, baptisms and sexual purity commitment cards showed I was leading a successful student ministry years ago, yet I’m not sure I prepared my students for what was ahead. In the process of planning a family outing over Memorial Day weekend last year, my mind went to the true purpose of Memorial Day — remembering those
By Kevin Shrum Pastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, Nashville We live in interesting days, do we not? With hostile adversaries overseas and serious divisions at home, most of us are looking for a more reasonable and peaceful civility that seems to have escaped us. Cultural unity eludes us. The public square is now naked, laid bare by intolerance.
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector “Change” is a “four-letter word” for most Baptists, so I’m going to use the word “transition.” Life is a series of transitions, both personally and professionally. For the past three years or so, your state newspaper has been in transition and it continues. In this issue is a story about the retirement of Connie Davis Bushey, effective May 31. Connie has served on
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector I have some words of advice for members of Faith in America, a North Carolina-based advocacy organization. Don’t hold
By David Evans TBMB Evangelism Specialist A problem exists within cultural Christianity that pertains to the steps of the Christian faith. If a child is
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector No one knows you better than your spouse. You can put on a “front” when you leave home,
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R A margin is a boundary, a border, or an edge. To be in the margin in printing or in
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector The secular world is always quick to point out the faults of Christians in general and Baptists in
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector “All good things must come to an end.” That sounds like the kind of “consolation” my
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There are moments in life that are so obviously important that they need not scream to
By Jake McCandless Baptist Press MOUNT VERNON, Ark. (BP) — Attendance numbers, professions of faith, baptisms and sexual purity commitment cards showed I was leading
By Kevin Shrum Pastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, Nashville We live in interesting days, do we not? With hostile adversaries overseas and serious divisions at home,
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector “Change” is a “four-letter word” for most Baptists, so I’m going to use the word “transition.” Life is