The When Heaven and Earth Collide podcast, Episode 06 with Dr. Bruce Ashford, Provost and Professor of Theology & Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of Every Square Inch: An Introduction to Cultural Engagement for Christians and One Nation Under God: A Christian Hope for American Politics. Bruce also has a fantastic blog… Continue Reading
Episode 4 of the When Heaven and Earth Collide podcast features Pastor Bryant Wright of Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, Georgia talking about helping refugees experience the love of Christ. Wright and Johnson Ferry were thrust into the middle of controversy last December when they agreed to follow through on their commitment to sponsor… Continue Reading
Philando Castille. Alton Sterling. Gregory Gunn. Tamir Rice. Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. Walter Scott. Eric Harris. John Crawford III. All shot dead or killed in the past two to three years. I might not know all that happened, but I know that someone should not die in response to selling CD’s or reaching for their… Continue Reading
Late Night comedienne, Samantha Bee of TBS and formerly of The Daily Show, recently praised Southern Baptists. She heartily affirmed the SBC for the Refugee Resolution that we just passed at our convention and Dr. Russell Moore for his defense of religious liberty, even for Muslims (the video has a few instances of rough language, including a… Continue Reading
I will be helping to lead the Evangelical Immigration Table booth at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Annual Meeting in St. Louis, MO next week from June 13-15. I have been working as the Southeast Regional Coordinator for the Evangelical Immigration Table, which is a consortium of ministries such as the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the… Continue Reading
In this chapter, I explore how this subversion of Christianity has happened in the past and how it has affected the witness of the church. This is a constant danger and it can come from many directions. The implications of what has taken place before can be seen in our current context in many ways.… Continue Reading
Cal Thomas interviewed Donald Trump and it released today. Toward the end, they talk about religion and who Donald thinks Jesus is and how he sees him. You can read the whole interview here. CT: Every president has called upon God at some point. Lincoln spoke of not being able to hold the office of… Continue Reading
S997, the anti-refugee bill that would have created a state registry for refugees and would have held sponsors civilly liable for certain future crimes that refugees would have committed, officially died this week in the South Carolina House of Representatives. This bill was full of religious liberty challenges, as I detailed back in early February,… Continue Reading
Trump’s plan for the forced mass deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants and their 5 million U.S. citizen children is to forcibly deport 25,000 people per day for 18-24 months at the beginning of his administration, which would necessitate the suspension of Due Process (Constitutionally guaranteed even to those here illegally), would cost approximately $600… Continue Reading
I have met Dr. Russell Moore and have spoken with him many times and know him to be nothing of the sort. I also know many who know him far better than I do and they would say the same. In his defense, I wrote this on Facebook this morning regarding the tweet from… Continue Reading