Thinking Critically . . . Acting Faithfully
Bill Jones muses about Baptists, faith, ethics, justice, politics . . . and 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 . . .
Is the highest biblical principle “Don’t make waves”? From some of the comments I’ve read on the Logsdon situation, you would think so. Just a month ago, we observed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the 91st anniversary of his birth. This month, we’ve observed Black History Month. Throughout these celebrations, we’ve been reminded of Read more . . .
My love for Logsdon Seminary and Hardin-Simmons I never attended Hardin-Simmons or Logsdon, though I first set foot on campus over 60 years ago, when my sister enrolled as a freshman in 1958. In recent years, I’ve been on campus numerous times, most frequently in my role as a trustee of the T. B. Maston Read more . . .
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I am afraid this may just be the first step in a series of moves that will sacrifice the integrity of the university on the altar of expediency, or perhaps as more recent news seems to indicate, the altar of moral, spiritual, and intellectual malfeasance. And I wonder about the extent to which the claimed Read more . . .