The year’s not over but it’s still time to review the top SBC news items for 2018. If stuff happens in December other than all the brethren and sistren stuffing themselves with Christmas fare, I’ll do an update. This year saw more newsworthy items in the SBC than for many years past. The election […]
Interesting facts on the most famous Southern Baptist ever
Lottie Moon, missionary to China from 1873 to her death in 1912, is the most famous person in Southern Baptist history. Our largest offering, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, is named for her. In time, her life came to be mythologized by Southern Baptists and her name invoked in order to raise […]
Christmas food, and you can have my White Fudge Oreos…
…when you pry them from my cold dead fingers. The only exceptions to that are if my doctor gives me an especially grave lecture or my wife gives me a sidelong glance. After all, I spent most of 2018 answering the same question from the Kroger cashiers, “Did you find everything you needed?” My answer […]
A sober and sensible look at the danger of missionary work
In a way, too much has been said about the recent killing of an American missionary in the Andaman islands but since John Chau was quite active in publicly recounting his travels and adventures, a recent opinion piece by Southeastern Seminary professor Scott Hildreth that was carried by Religious News Service may be appropriate and […]
Lottie Moon is always the best choice for missions giving
While there are many worthy causes, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions is clearly and always the best choice for missions giving among Southern Baptists. The offering, last year’s came to $158.9 million, all directed to overseas needs. The LMCO provides over half of our International Mission Board’s funding. Thank God that almost […]
One entity hire made, four to go…
IMB is the largest, oldest, and most important of our SBC entities and has a new CEO. Paul Chitwood was a good choice. My prayers for a stable and prosperous future. IMB has been around for a long time. Although the CEO is important, they don’t need any Savior other than Jesus to survive and […]
An exciting day at my state convention annual meeting
By popular demand your humble hacker and plodder blogger was in attendance at the annual meeting of the Georgia Baptist Convention yesterday. Actually, the reason for my presence was more marital command (my wife was in the choir for the event) than popular demand, but why quibble over the ultimate cause. I was there, eyes […]
The blogging equivalent of a church potluck supper
I had a wonderful older lady in my church whose habit was to bring rutabagas to the monthly senior luncheon. I don’t like the smell of rutabagas. I don’t like the taste of rutabagas. I don’t like the look of rutabagas. They are virtually inedible just on the basis of the name ‘rutabaga’. Why would anyone […]
SBC Today gives up the ghost
The flagship blog of SBC Traditionalists, SBC Today, announced a few days ago that “for the forseeable future” they would take a “hiatus.” I guess that means they gave up the ghost, although with one short post since the announcement a light pulse is felt. May it be hereby noted that this was done on […]
Why not rather be wronged?
The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? (NIV) If ever there is a scripture passage that has been neutered it is this one concerning lawsuits among believers. One of our entities is being sued by a […]
Guaranteed to give foodies the heebie jeebies
May I modestly offer my humble self as a BBQ connoisseur? Indeed, I am, though some close to me may tweak that term and say that I’m more of a BBQ consumptioneur…but what do they know? I like most any kind of BBQ pork, and even beef if offered it, with most any kind of […]
Ecclesiology…can’t get any respect from Southern Baptists
I’m not the lonely pastor theologian slogging away thinking deep theological thoughts, unappreciated and in obscurity. I’m currently not lonely, not a pastor, and not a theologian and my goal was just to try and hack it on Mondays (thanks, Adrian, for that line). But I do wonder why we stalwart conservative, Bible-believing, inerrantists seem […]