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Leaving the SBC behind? This has to be discussed about Cornerstone Church

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I don’t recall a more widely discussed departure from the SBC than that of Cornerstone Church in Atlanta. In my memory only a few high profile, moderate churches leaving the denomination generated as much publicity. Christianity Today has the most comprehensive story about this: Atlanta Church Splits With SBC for Downplaying Racial Issues [Pastor John] […]

Southern Baptist Dictionary

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In 1828 Noah Webster published his crowning achievement The American Dictionary of the English Language.  The book was the culmination of his life’s work and contained 70k words, of which 12k had never appeared in a dictionary before.  Webster learned 26 languages to help in his work and introduced American spellings of words like color […]

Put John Lewis statue in the rotunda, Alexander H. Stephens in a museum

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This is a totally parochial article, pertains to the state of Georgia. Each state gets to put two statues in the Capitol Rotunda. The last time I was in the place, I gazed absentmindedly at our state’s statue of Alexander Hamilton Stephens while some group’s tour guide blathered on about the statues. Stephens was the […]

A Good Reverse-Bivocational Option (Scott Wells)

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Editor: After a recent article discussing bivocational pastoring options, a regular reader, Scott Wells from Ohio, sent this to me. This was prompted by responses to the recent post “Is the small, single full-time clergy staff church a luxury churches can no longer afford?”  I am what I would call a reverse bi-vocational.  In addition […]

So, wear a stinkin’ mask…

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…if that doesn’t exert you too much. Here I am in my blogging sanctum sanctorum, my basement of course, all masked up but only for illustrative purposes. I don’t quite get it when I see people in their car alone with a mask. I stay pretty close to home these days but venture out to […]

“Woke” won’t work here

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“Woke” is a dog whistle, a red flag signal; a brainless, thoughtless, mindless, vapid bit of freshman frat boy drivel. If the word is snarled out in a comment it’s a lead pipe cinch that the comment is a flash of drive-by nonsense. There are good arguments for and against renaming SBTS buildings. “Woke” or lack […]

Baptists You Should Know – Robert Earl Beddoe

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The history of the SBC includes thousands of missionaries, pastors, workers, and others who often get lost to history.  My goal is to highlight a few of those people in order that we can be encouraged and inspired by their lives and sacrifice. Robert Beddoe was born to a prominent Baptist family in Dallas, Texas […]

Some of our entities funded by the Paycheck Protection Plan

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Retirement plus quarantine may provide too much time. Thus, the huge Small Business Administration database  listing some of the recipients of the Paycheck Protection Plan loans. I make no moral judgment about those who chose or declined to choose to apply and receive these government backed loans. Generally, all the SBC leaders gave advice about […]

Have You Met DARVO?

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This may come as a shock to most of you, but I am often not up to date on your whippersnapper, hipster lingo. I am thankful for the Google because I can go on the interwebs and look up stuff you guys talk about, appearing as if I was in the know all the time. […]

Humble advice for the passive pastor in the parsonage

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I’m retired now but served three churches as pastor. For most of that thirty-year period my family and I lived in homes owned by the church, the parsonage. An article earlier this year on the subject, Behold, the lowly parsonage, covers much of the details on this. Comments were generally positive towards living in a […]