Thinking Critically . . . Acting Faithfully
Bill Jones muses about Baptists, faith, ethics, justice, politics . . . and more
If you are suddenly receiving old blog posts from me in your email, there is a reason for that. I am doing a little “retooling” of my blog Web site, which includes copying all of the posts from the old Texas Baptists Committed blog, which ran from 2010-2017, to my current blog. I’m backdating them Read more . . .
EDITOR’S NOTE: George Mason preached this sermon on July 4, 2004, which was the first time Joanna and I visited Wilshire Baptist Church (we became members soon after). I recently came across this sermon (I had copied it off the Wilshire Web site that summer of 2004 and put it on a CD), listened to Read more . . .
In only three days since Babs Baugh’s passing, I’ve already read at least a half-dozen articles paying tribute to her life, and I know there will be many more to come. No one person can adequately tell the story of a life so very well-lived, a life that touched so many people. So we each tell Read more . . .
WEEKLY BAPTIST ROUNDUP from Bill Jones NEWS May 30 UPDATE: Supreme Court denies California church appeal as governor announces new guidelines for opening houses of worship (Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty) Southern Baptist leaders issue joint statement on the death of George Floyd (SBC Baptist Press) June 1 Discovery Team releases findings on powerful Read more . . .
WEEKLY BAPTIST ROUNDUP from Bill Jones NEWS May 30 UPDATE: Supreme Court denies California church appeal as governor announces new guidelines for opening houses of worship (Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty) Southern Baptist leaders issue joint statement on the death of George Floyd (SBC Baptist Press) June 1 Discovery Team releases findings on powerful Read more . . .
Whenever a disaster, natural or otherwise, strikes – whether a single site, a city, a region, or even the entire globe – crackpots come out of the woodwork (I’m not sure how they do that, maybe through cracks in the woodwork) to spout their theories proclaiming that the event is God’s punishment resulting from the Read more . . .
Ten years ago this week, my life – at least my career path – changed dramatically. A 20-year career as a technical writer/editor in the corporate world came to a sudden and surprising end. I had been “laid off” (corporate-speak for “fired”; I’ve never been “laid back on” after being “laid off”) several times in Read more . . .
In 2004, my wife and I left our church of 17 years because it had become clear to us that a Fundamentalist mentality had a death grip on it. The first “red flag” of a Fundamentalist bent, however, had come 12 years earlier. In a 1992 Sunday morning sermon, the pastor had bragged of receiving Read more . . .
February 17, 2020 As someone who was present and involved in the evolution of the Logsdon School of Theology to its state just prior to the decision by President Bruntmyer and the Hardin-Simmons University Board of Trustees to close Logsdon Seminary, I feel a strong sense of responsibility to address some of the statements in Read more . . .
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Monday, February 17, 2020 An Open Letter to All Baptists in Texas, As representatives of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Texas, we stand in support of Logsdon Seminary and offer our love and prayers to the faculty, students, graduates, and families of this much beloved seminary. The events of the past few Read more . . .