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Annual Meeting housekeeping, by-law changes

May 6, 2015 by William Thornton

It’s not looking like I will make the annual meeting in Columbus but a few housekeeping matters concerning SBC bylaws will be on the agenda anyway. 1. Electronic Voting…the SBC dragged into the 21st Century. The punch card ballots used all these years at the annual meetings (“Take out your ballots and tear off ballot number […]

Nazi Germany, Jim Crow and civil dialogue

May 4, 2015 by William Thornton

I sometimes wonder if constructive dialogue is possible on the hot button issues of the day. It looks to me as if not but, perhaps,  I am reading opinions and discussions in all the wrong places. Who would argue that the volatility index for discussion of white hot cultural and racial issues is not in […]

Best retirement advice I ever received

April 27, 2015 by William Thornton

I’ve always paid attention to the matter of retirement and retirement income. When GuideStone or the state convention sent a guy around to speak to the pastor’s conference or to an associational meeting, I was present and paying attention. When I reached the age (I think it was 55) where I received an invitation to […]

Lost in the blogging black hole: Cooperative Program is up

April 20, 2015 by William Thornton

Lost, swamped, overwhelmed by white hot discussions of the Religious Freedom Restoration Acts, by debate about whether or not elder rule practitioner and SBC Pastor’s Conference invitee James MacDonald made a proper apology for calling congregational governance “satanic”, and by other weighty matters is this little item that directly affects tens of thousands of Southern […]

The Christian butcher, baker, and wedding picture maker

April 13, 2015 by William Thornton

Should Christians who by reason of belief and conscience discriminate against same sex couples be held liable under non-discrimination laws or should there be an exception made in order to uphold their First Amendment religious liberty rights? Though none of the occupations (I added the butcher for obvious literary reasons) are mentioned in the recent […]

The “ideal” Cooperative Program division between state and national

March 31, 2015 by William Thornton

    Our venerable Cooperative Program now in its tenth decade and while somewhat diminished in percentages and sums from earlier times, is still a mammoth funding engine without which the SBC at the state convention and national levels would be unrecognizable. In my several decades of pastoral hacking and plodding in the SBC hinterlands I […]

Reality on the ground in the Middle East

March 21, 2015 by William Thornton

Recent posts and comments here on the reality on the ground in the Middle East have been somewhat informative though, to me, generally discouraging. Most of us share some level of concern for the appalling, senseless, and shocking violence committed by radical groups in the area. Although we receive steady streams of news, videos, and reports […]

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