By Steve Holt Church services director, Tennessee Baptist Mission Board Associations have been a vital part of Baptist life in America for more than 400 years. I believe Baptist associations served as the building blocks on which the structure and organization of Baptist state conventions and the Southern Baptist Convention were constructed.  At its core, every association is a fellowship of autonomous — yet cooperative — churches that have joined

  By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector When I was a kid, adults very seldom monitored cartoons. Other than the violence of Wile E. Coyote dropping an anvil or boulder that was supposed to fall on the Road Runner (but usually somehow ended up on his own head) and a few other characters, cartoons were tame, for the most part. Cartoon heroes like Yogi Bear, Fred Flintstone, Bugs Bunny

By Todd Brady Vice President for University Ministries, Union University They say that two wrongs don’t make a right. That saying has certainly proven true this month concerning recent events related to a Christian adoption agency and the government. After being sued for declining to work with same-sex couples, the agency decided to alter its policy in order to come in line with a state regulation. When the state’s attorney