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By Jonathan Waits
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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Most people convert to Christianity because they are either in or drawn to a social and cultural context where such a transition is both welcomed and even expected. They become more attached to a Christian community than to any other and so become like their new community. What are the implications of that?
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By Brandon Hudson
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 |
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As a pastor, I always have something else I know needs to be done. These are things I want and “need” to do. But I cannot do them well if I don’t spend some time doing nothing. I become an automaton, going through the motions of my life. I bring neither energy nor creativity to my family or church.
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By Jim White
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013 |
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I don’t have a study to back up my assumption that church staff members need to pray more, but based on my own observations I feel comfortable making the assertion. As Yogi Berra is credited with saying, “You can observe a lot just by looking around.” But getting pastors and staff members to agree they need to play more might be problematic.
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By Matt Cook
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Friday, April 05, 2013 |
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I probably don’t have to convince you that the cross suggests something about our political ethics. It suggests that wielding power to force our will on others is not the way of Jesus. But if wielding power isn’t the way, what is the way? What is the alternative political ethic?
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By Brandon Hudson
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Friday, April 05, 2013 |
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Maybe it’s time we start a “starter congregant” or “starter visitor” program for churches, based on caring for animals. To care for an animal would mean learning new things and changing patterns of life — all to ensure the health of something that is not owned by an individual but called into life by the same God of us all.
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By Jim White
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Friday, April 05, 2013 |
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If a county board of supervisors began meetings by prostrating themselves on prayer rugs facing Mecca, I would be incensed. I think most Baptists would be. Whether the First Amendment sanctions or condemns the action is not the issue for me. Rather, in my mind the action is judged by a much older statute.
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By Alex Gallimore
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Friday, April 05, 2013 |
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In the weeks since the election of Pope Francis, I have reflected on my experience on a day the whole world seemed to be Catholic, considering what it means for all of us, even we Baptists, to have a new pope. I have decided for two reasons to embrace the idea that “we” have a new pope.
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By Lisa Cole Smith
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Tuesday, April 02, 2013 |
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I don’t know what to make of the reality that marriage is on the decline among heterosexuals in the United States in the midst of the hot and heavy debate on the rights of homosexuals to marry. How can marriage be so important an “issue” and at the same time have such a bad rap?
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