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As I have explained before, one of the most painful realities that reporters face is that the vast majority of news consumers do not understand who writes, and who does not write, the all-important headlines that top news reports.
Before we examine a slice or two of this recent New York Times piece about Bishop Eddie L. Long, I feel the need to ask a few basic questions about this troubled church leader’s theology.
After a Kentucky church voted to ban interracial couples from the congregation, I posted last week on media understanding of Free Will Baptist hierarchy â or more precisely, the lack thereof.
Over at Yahoo! News â one of the most visited sites in the online universe â the third and fourth most popular items at this moment relate to a tiny Kentucky church voting to ban interracial couples from joining the flock.
Greetings from the mountains of North Carolina, where the big news is that the library is closed. Thus, this “Pod people” update comes to you care of the free wifi in the wonderful Hilltop Restaurant in beautiful downtown Burnsville. Let’s hear it for diners with wifi AND multiple items the Orthodox can eat in Nativity Lent!
If I have learned anything in my two decades as a professor in Christian higher education, it is this. There is no one approach to “Christian” higher education.
Confession time: I live in Oklahoma City, but I don’t read a whole lot of news stories about my local city council’s meetings.
Anyone who knows anything about mainstream American religion knows that the Southern Baptist Convention is our land’s largest non-Catholic flock. Despite the word “Southern” in the name — and SBC leaders are thinking about changing that — this is an increasingly national church and one with significant ethnic presence, as well.
On Sunday, my congregation celebrated the Reformation rather gloriously. As one might expect for the day one commemorates the good news of the salvation of all sinners by grace alone through faith alone because of Christ alone, our pastor preached an amazing sermon. The organist pulled out all the stops. We even did the German Mass, which includes many, many hymns. But we didn’t sing “Salvation Unto Us Has Come.” And this disappointed me.
