Chronic illness resulting from self destructive life choices has prompted a national health emergency. We're fat and getting fatter. Heart problems, obesity and diabetes result from Americans' unwillingness to eat right and exercise. [Read More]
A place at the beach used to be a dream. Now "for sale" signs prove the dream may be less palatable than the anticipation. Dream bigger. [Read More]
It did not take long for the snipers to find Johnny Hunt. Within 72 hours after his election as president of the Southern Baptist Convention some blogging friends of mine were complaining about his use of the term "Dr." before his name. The issue to...
Southern Baptists honored world Baptist leader Billy Kim with a "Distinguished Baptist Statesman" award during the opening session of the 2008 Southern Baptist Convention Tuesday morning. It is a recognition well deserved to one of the world's most visible...
Bill Wagner is serious about winning the election Tuesday as president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He has a dozen eager students and Olivet University workers volunteering in Indianapolis doing the "community organization" work of a real campaign. ...
I took an extra long shower this morning, something the North Carolina drought prevented for a long time. But, when Indiana gets 11 inches of rain in one day as did several counties just south of Indianapolis Saturday, I had no qualms about letting the hot...
Honoring perhaps in his way a Baptist tradition of public repentance, Richard Land apologized "to anyone offended" for his reference to Democratic Senator Charles Schumer as "the schmuck from New York." The august chairman of the Southern...
The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life?s just released US Religious Landscape Survey 2008 is the most comprehensive (35,556 adult telephone interviews) I? have encountered. It sub-classifies Protestant churches into three groups: Evangelical Mainline...