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Letters this week addressed a column on songwriting, the Southern Baptist Convention’s resolution decrying the alt-right movement and Shariah law.
06/24/2017 - By Marv Knox
If Jesus had Twitter in his incarnation, his handle would have been @Simply_Make_Disciples.
06/23/2017 - By Marv Knox
It’s going to take more than conversion to make progress on social ills like racism, violence and poverty. It’s going to take more than individual piety to create a more just society. The highly individualized theology of American Christianity leaves us hamstrung to face the social problems of our time.
The base of the alt-right movement is “white nationalism, or at least white identity politics.”
06/23/2017 - By Ferrell Foster
This week’s profile of Texas Baptist ministers features Dennis Young, pastor of Missouri City Baptist Church in Missouri City for 25 years.
Scapegoating has become far too common among churches as a means of diverting attention from actual causes to projected ones.
If people of faith are shut out of either major political party, then voices for moral principles and transcendent values will be diminished.
06/21/2017 - By Marv Knox
Churches are for people, and people are complicated. We’re human, and the records of our faith have not flinched in the face of that fact, so why should our churches?
What this year’s NBA Finals taught us is that racism rears its ugly head anywhere and everywhere.
If we think of church as a hospital, then under no circumstances could we ever turn someone away because her or his spiritual illness was too severe, or think someone has to change behavior or get healthy before becoming part of our community.
This week’s profile of Texas Baptist ministers features Howard Anderson, founding pastor of the “Exciting” Singing Hills Baptist Church in Dallas.
A legal scholar explains Shariah law, and why—despite fears and protests to the contrary—it is not a threat to non-Muslims.
