Christian groups like the ERLC and the Kainos Movement are moving toward hosting discussions on racism in America and in the church in the 21st century, which is a good thing. But, if we are not careful, we will miss the deeper issues that animate the entire problem. I sought to explore those deeper issues… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Cultural Mandate
Growing Modernization Resulting in Religious Decline Proved Spectacularly Wrong?
I was doing some research a while back and I ran across this perspective by Bill Bishop in The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart. Social scientists have been predicting for the past three centuries that religion would soon run its course and disappear. Sociologist Rodney Stark found he… Continue Reading
A Resolution on Ministry to Immigrants for Alabama Baptists
The 2014 Alabama Baptist State Convention will take place in Birmingham, AL on November 11-12. I am submitting the following resolution to the convention. It calls for holistic gospel ministry to immigrants in our state by Alabama Baptists. The resolution also encourages our elected officials to work together to agree upon equitable immigration reform. Alabama… Continue Reading
Hobby Lobby Now Bears a Greater Responsibility
Hobby Lobby won their case before the Supreme Court asking for a religious exemption to the ObamaCare contraception mandate. Advocates for religious liberty (of which I am one), consider this a great victory for people of faith who do not want to leave their religious practices at the church door and believe that it is… Continue Reading
Hobby Lobby, Chinese Human Rights Abuses, Southern Slavery, and the Supreme Court
Over the last couple of days there has been much discussion over an article that Jonathan Merritt wrote stating that Hobby Lobby could not lay claim to calling themselves a Christian business before the Supreme Court because they involved themselves in exploitive labor practices in China where most of their goods are made. Russell… Continue Reading
Should Christians Bake a King Cake?
I saw this tweet a few minutes ago that Dr. Russell Moore, president of Southern Baptist’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (I’m a fan, btw) retweeted from Kyndra Moore (not sure if related). It goes, @kyndramoore: @drmoore …But the real ethical question is: would Jesus bake a king cake? This is obviously a… Continue Reading
Nelson Mandela Motivated By His Christian Faith
“The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!” . . . “Each Easter marks the rebirth of our faith. It marks the victory of our risen Savior over the torture… Continue Reading
Be the Change You Want to See: Homeless Man Returns Bag with $40,000, Another Man (Pike Road, AL native) Raises $100,000 For Him
What an amazing story. Glen James, a homeless man who panhandled for spare change in Boston, found a bag left behind by a traveler with $40,000. Instead of keeping it for himself (and he definitely could have used it), he turned it in to the police. James cited his faith in God and his trust… Continue Reading
Alabama Sororities Desegregate: The House of Racism Only Required a Push to Begin to Crack and Topple
It was all a house of cards, but no one knew it. What seemed to be impenetrable and just “how things were” was pushed on by a few sorority girls at the University of Alabama and the structure is now cracking and beginning to fall. How far will this go? How much introspection will take… Continue Reading
Is Dr. King’s Dream Dead?
Today marks the 50th Anniversary of one of the most important speeches in American history, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech given on the Washington Mall on August 28, 1963. It marked a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and it had such galvanizing power because it called America back… Continue Reading