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  Voices: A call for ceasefire in America’s culture war

  Too often, we think of ourselves first as Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Christians as well. This is shamefully backwards. We are followers of Christ, children of the one God, who may happen to vote one way more often than the other. The kingdom of God is diverse.

  02/22/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Guest editorial: Pastor—a unique, contextual calling

  Each Christian is responsible to God for fulfilling calling. … Being a pastor is more than what I do. It is who I am called to be.

  02/22/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Johnson Amendment, public education, sanctuary campus, racism

  Letters this week include responses to coverage of the Johnson Amendment, school voucher proposals, a call for Baylor University to become a sanctuary campus and racism in America.

  02/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Editorial: Will the Executive Board follow messengers’ votes and remove churches?

  Messengers to the 2016 Baptist General Convention of Texas annual meeting created two standards for determining if a church is in “harmonious cooperation” with the BGCT. Will the convention’s Executive Board apply both standards?

  02/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Voices: Exploring the new world in the 21st century

  How should people of faith live, and move, and have their being in a chaotically developing new world?

  02/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Voices: In these political times, protect your soul

  Politics must not run our lives. It must not dictate the way we think about and treat others, and it must not leave us in despair. It must not become an idol.

  02/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  David Ritsema: ‘I am not ashamed of the gospel …’

  This week’s profile of Texas Baptist ministers features David Ritsema, pastor of First Baptist Church in Waxahachie.

  02/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  2nd Opinion: Politicize our churches? No, thanks

  Changing the law that prohibits churches and other charities from engaging in partisan politics is not about protecting free speech, asserts Amanda Tyler, executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

  02/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Guest editorial: Being the church

  God calls us to be the physical presence of Christ in the world by literally caring for the hungry, thirsty, naked, imprisoned and the stranger. How could we possibly think this means only our sisters and brothers in our church and not the refugee, the immigrant, the homeless and the prisoner?

  02/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Commentary: Christ, not America, first

  God wants us to view everyone—regardless of their ethnicity, culture, nationality, politics, worldview, or socio-economic background—as people divinely loved by God and created in God’s image. (Sojourners)

  02/15/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Voices: What is truth? From ‘spin’ down to ‘alternative facts’

  Christians should beware the seduction of powerful people who attempt to turn facts upside down.

  02/08/2017 - By Marv Knox

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  Editorial: Johnson Amendment repeal would ‘destroy’ church unity

  If you think President Trump’s plan to “destroy” the Johnson Amendment sounds good, think again. Religious liberty demands thoughtful separation of church and state, not a quickie marriage of pulpits and politics.

  02/08/2017 - By Marv Knox