Author: Brian Hobbs

Every so often, a theological debate rears its head that threatens to divide the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and distract us from our mission to take the Gospel to the ends of the Earth (Acts 1:8). Within recent years, a...

As messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) 2013 Annual Meeting convened last week, there had never been a better time to be a Southern Baptist. How could I say that in the face of so many significant challenges?...

Every so often, the Baptist Messenger publishes a special insert called Messenger Insight. The set of articles, which feature experts and leaders on select topics, are designed to create focus on a single issue that is important...

After a long, painful public battle, the Boy Scouts of America has succumbed to the demands of gay-rights groups to welcome openly homosexual young men into their ranks. Many wonder what this will do to the long-term viability...

In Oklahoma, all you have to say is “April 19” or “May 3,” and people know exactly what you mean. Many say we now can add to this list of traumatic events in the state’s history the date “May 20.” Each of these tragic events—the...

”The Great Gatsby,” a movie based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic, earned more than $50 million in its opening weekend. What a fitting wad of cash Americans spent on this movie, which is based on the 1920s fictional tale of...

Each of us reading this was born of a woman. In some circumstances, our birth mother was not the one to raise us, yet in a vast majority of cases, we each were raised and reared by the woman we call “Mother.” Too often, we...