Year: 2012

When my two kids left home for college – the first in 2000, the second in 2004 – I gave each of them the same final word of advice, which was some variation of the following: “Be sensitive to the presence of ‘giants’ in your life – those people who care enough to invest themselves Read more . . .

One sentence gave me pause. “LifeWay canceled the project last year amid reports that some Komen affiliates gave money to Planned Parenthood.” It appeared in an Associated Baptist Press article about criticism leveled by Thom Rainer, head of LifeWay Christian Resources – the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention – at Susan G. Komen Read more . . .

I’m taking a momentary (only momentary, as you’ll see) break from writing about things Baptist, because there was a monumental occurrence last night that has prompted me to come clean about a secret known heretofore only to my very closest friends and family members. Yes, the truth can finally be told, and I’m relieved to Read more . . .

A few minutes ago, I was writing a post for Weighty Matters, the TBMaston Foundation blog, about the Ethics Lecture that took place earlier this week at Truett Seminary on the Baylor campus. As I wrote about the role of the prophet in challenging Christians to reexamine our beliefs and principles, an old song popped Read more . . .