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Pride and Apologies
I recently made an off-handed comment about a conservative evangelical in a public setting. A short while later I received an email from a colleague at another institution, noting the inaccuracy of my statement. His email was the result of an email from a colleague at...
President Obama and Gay Marriage
How disappointing to hear the President of the United States declare his support for same-sex marriage. He has indicated that his position on marriage has evolved. Even more disappointing was his declaration that Jesus supports his position. The President’s liberalism...
Controversy over “Immersion”
From the earliest days of the British and Foreign Bible Society (founded in 1804) and the American Bible Society (founded in 1816), Baptists supported and encouraged the translation of the Bible into numerous languages. A conflict eventually developed which caused the...
Burma Sees More Freedom
Myanmar, better known to many as Burma, closed its borders to much of the world after a military coup in 1962. There were numerous Baptists in Burma at that time, and they were reflective of American, and to a lesser degree, English Baptists – fundamentalist Baptists...
Judson and American Baptist Missions
When Adoniram Judson left America as its first foreign missionary, only the Congregationalists were supporting missionaries. Adoniram and Ann Judson were not the only missionaries sent out by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Accompanying the...
Adoniram Judson and Baptism
Adoniram and Ann Judson along with the Newells sailed from Salem, Massachusetts, on the 19th of February, 1812. Judson spent part of the journey in a study of the question of infant baptism. He understood the baptism of new converts to be the plain command of...
What We’re Reading – Coming to Grips with Genesis
Terry Mortenson and Thane H. Ury, eds. Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2010. Although written from a creationist point of view, this work is not a book on science. It is a hermeneutics and...
Kudos to the Catholics
It’s not very often that I would commend the Roman Catholic Church. I disagree with much of their theology, their practices and their attitudes, but in the last couple of weeks, I commend them, along with a number of other religious groups that I may have little or no...
What We’re Reading – Gospel Powered Humility
BOOK REVIEW William Farley. Gospel Powered Humility. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 2011. I recently finished reading Gospel Powered Humility by William Farley. If you think for one minute that pride is in check in your life or ministry, or if you ever find...
America’s First Missionary Sacrifices
Sitting in a small cabin on board the ship Caravan were six young people. Two were the well known Ann and Adoniram Judson. Two were young men on board only to say goodbye to the others. The last two were Harriett and Samuel Newell. The former Harriett Atwood was the...
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