When I was growing up, I had dreams. Not the kind of dreams you have in your sleep, but the dreams of potential. One of the questions children hear most often is, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Most children answer...
Read MoreI think that I am still processing from my recent trip to the Peruvian Amazon. The Bryan Baptist Association has adopted the Iquito people who live along the Chambira river, which is a tributary of the Amazon. I took a group of...
Read MoreI can’t begin to imagine the amount of written content Charles Haddon Spurgeon would have produced in our day. For example, in his biography of Spurgeon, Arnold Dallimore records that Spurgeon penned up to 500 personal...
Read MoreMy grandfather, Walker Winfield Scott, was a tall, lanky Irishman. I always thought there was something special about hanging out with a man who shared my first name. He and my grandmother lived on a small farm outside of Miami,...
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Presidential historian Richard Norton Smith believes all modern American presidents eventually...
Read MoreI have a confession to make: I once belonged to a singing group. I don’t imagine you’ve ever heard of “The Young Testimonies.” Not many people have. Our 1960s-era youth culture was divided into two segments: those who belonged...
Read MoreIn 2006, Republican Congressman Lynn Westmoreland of Georgia joined other members of the United States House of Representatives as they worked for the passage of a bill that would allow the Ten Commandments to be hung in the...
Read MoreWhat do the gay people in your church look like? Do you spot them by their flamboyant clothing, their mannerisms, their declarations? When a brother or sister in your church came to you to ask you for your help and support in...
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by Douglas E. Baker and Casey S. Shutt In 1976 when evangelicals dominated the political scene,...
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