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Blogging, Baptist Battles & Burnout
Who would have thunk it. My mom has become a Baptist blog fanatic. A lifelong Southern Baptist who is in her late sixties, my mom began reading my blog several months ago. From there, it did not take...
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The Battle in New Orleans & My Return Visit
It was the summer of 1990, just before the beginning of the Fall Semester of my third (and last) year at Florida State College of Law in Tallahassee. My mom, my 14 year-old sister, and a friend of my...
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NOLA 2012: The Thing That Matters Most
When the 2012 Southern Baptist Convention, meeting in the historic city of New Orleans, gavels to a close on Wednesday, June 20, what will be the thing that matters most? We will all have different...
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NM Baptists, Glorieta, & Lifeway’s Shame
Holcomb Auditorium at Glorieta On Wednesday, fellow blogger and now retired Georgia Baptist pastor William Thornton (SBC Plodder), posted an article entitled “Lifeway, Glorieta Conference Center and...
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Southern Baptist Table Manners & Majority Practice
Who has better table manners? That question once again comes to the forefront in Southern Baptist life following the release of a recent survey on Lord’s Supper practices among SBC churches conducted...
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Calvinism, Connections & Cronies in MBTS Search?
“Good ol’ boy is an American slang term that can have both positive and negative meanings, depending on context and usage. . . . It can be used as a pejorative term, referring to someone who engages in...
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“Lifeway’s” World Changers Abandons Gallop & the West!
First, Glorieta. Now Gallop. They say things come in three’s. I don’t know what “G” will be next for Lifeway to abandon in my part of the country, but I do know that three is the number of projects...
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Twitter, Tweets & Teaching an Old Guy New Tricks
Twitter, the social media phenomenon, turned seven on Thursday. In terms of technology, seven years is a lifetime. Seven years ago, my phone wasn’t smart, I had not entered the blogosphere and, I...
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Weekend 7: John 3:16, Gay Ordination & Leadership
What do John 3:16, Gay Ordination, and Leadership have in common? They have all been in the news this week. It’s been a while since I have written a “Weekend 7″ post. To be exact, my last such post...
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Pentagon Blocks SBC Website: Diabolical Plot or Glitch?
Sometime yesterday (Thursday) afternoon, I noticed a curious article that began popping up on my Facebook news feed. Posted by several of my fellow Southern Baptist FB friends, the article in question,...
View ArticleThe Radical Selection of David Platt to Lead IMB
David Platt, well-known author of such books as “Radical” and “Follow Me” and, Pastor of the Church at Brook Hills (a Southern Baptist congregation in Birmingham, AL), was elected by the Board of...
View ArticleLifeway’s World Changers Gallops Back into New Mexico!
After what appeared to be a precipitous and unexpected retreat from New Mexico just a few years ago, Lifeway’s World Changers Student Missions Projects (Gospel + Construction) are once again galloping...
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