Today’s the day. The sun comes to a slow stop from going southward and inches back up. I’m a little depressed but things will literally be sunnier from now until beyond the contentious SBCAM in June. My fair locale has 9 hours and 53 minutes of sun today. The farthest north I’ve ever been, North […]
Christians and the Public School (by Dale Huntington)
Growing up in a family of mostly secular humanist educators, I never once questioned if I should be going to public school. My father was the elementary school principal my friends referred to as Dr. Huntington and my mom was a school teacher and a college counselor for most of my life. So, when private […]
Ah, our Grand Old Convention: Politics, leaks, dirty tricks doth infuse, infuriate, energize and electrify us
It’s our system. Why should anyone be surprised? My mantra on the SBC Annual Meeting, specifically in response to the clamor of the remote voting crowd has always been, “Show up. Vote. Go home.” We had over 15,000 registered messengers in Nashville. There was heavy, strident, and sometimes dramatic competition for their individual votes. As […]
The Man Who Understood Christmas
I haven’t had time to enter into the fray here, so I thought I’d drop by leave a Christmas message here. I know our audience isn’t always motivated unless there’s something to fight about, but this is what I’m writing and working on these days. Do you ever wonder during all the hullaballoo of the […]
2022 SBC Pastor’s Conference
The SBC Pastor’s Conference has announced their speakers for the 2022 meeting. Baptist Press: SBC Pastor’s Conference speakers spread across multiple ministry settings The list of pastors speaking at the 2022 SBC Pastors’ Conference stretches across a variety of backgrounds, from small congregations to megachurches and combat veteran to former Division I college football player. […]
Taking a Prophetic Stand: Die Hard is NOT a Christmas Movie
This was originally posted in 2016, but since heretics like Jay Adkins continue to troll social media promoting Die Hard as a Christmas Movie, people who stand for truth, justice, and the ho-ho-ho way have to continue to stand. I read a post the other day differentiating trolling and taking a prophetic stand. Trolling is […]
Should Mid-America Seminary be put on SBC ‘probation?’
My answer at the top here: “NO.” I’m an alumnus of Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary and I’m embarrassed by recent actions of my beloved alma mater. I arrived at the seminary in 1978 and, after three full years including one full and fun summer of Hebrew, I received my MDiv. I haven’t been on the […]
A Voices guy, a CBN guy, and a duck walk into a bar…
The Voices guy says, “Give me a shot of the strongest stuff you’ve got. We gotta guy here who writes stuff, every word his own and under his own name and people blame the rest of us for it. Then he deletes it all by himself and people complain that we deleted it – sucker […]
A Word (Well, a LOT of Words) about SBC Voices
I am emerging from my personal hibernation to address an issue and give some information about SBC Voices. I am coming out of probably the worst 2-year period in my life – I won’t bother to regale you with all the details, but COVID hit me hard and hit my church hard. Two years ago, […]
Christian Nationalism Is Water from a Tainted Well
On November 13, former Trump national security adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn spoke to a group of evangelical Christians at the Reawaken America Tour, a church-based political rally held at Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas. Flynn–and others–spoke about many things. Still, a couple of the highly noteworthy things deal with themes that are becoming much more […]
It May Be Time for the SBC to Break ALL Ties to MABTS
Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary has no formal ties to the SBC, but has always had an informal relationship with our convention. In my younger days, before the changes brought by the CR at our six official seminaries, many pastors encouraged young men called to the ministry to go MABTS for theological education because it was […]
I’m embarrassed by my alma mater, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary
MABTS was a new, different kind of Southern Baptist seminary in 1978 when I matriculated. I persevered through three plus years of seminary education, complete with Greek and Hebrew. It was a great time. I graduated in 1981. Gray Allison, founder and president at the time (he died in 2019) was a great man by […]