Thinking Critically . . . Acting Faithfully
Bill Jones muses about Baptists, faith, ethics, justice, politics . . . and more
Personal opinion and analysis of issues bearing on ethics, religion, theology, politics, and so forth
Click here to read Part 1. Click here to read Part 2. Click here to read Part 4. Click here to read Part 5. I was especially disappointed by your use of quotation marks enclosing the word “Baptist” as applied to Kamala Harris; then you made clear the reason – “her liberal political views are Read more . . .
Click here to read Part 1. Click here to read Part 3. Click here to read Part 4. Click here to read Part 5. Dear ————-, Your emails have left me a little puzzled. I appreciate your kind words of appreciation for Weekly Baptist Roundup. However, your request for “a balanced coverage of VP Mike Read more . . .
Click here to read Part 2. Click here to read Part 3. Click here to read Part 4. Click here to read Part 5. I recently received two emails from a reader of my Weekly Baptist Roundup (WBR) e-newsletter. The questions and concerns expressed by this reader helped me to realize that not all WBR Read 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 . . .
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 . . .