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Reflections on CBF General Assembly

It’s no secret that I’ve been a friendly critic of the apparent lack of clear direction afflicting the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in recent years. A challenging column of mine published in another...

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BWA annual gathering is about relationships

On Saturday I left for Santiago, Chile to attend the Annual Gathering of the Baptist World Alliance. I look forward to seeing current friends and making new friends from throughout the world....

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Celebrating with Chilean Baptists is a moving experience

What do you do when— in what may be the only time in your life—Baptists from all over the world come to your country for the Annual Gathering of the Baptist World Alliance? Chilean Baptists decided to...

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When is a world organization not a world organization?

Several mornings at the Baptist World Alliance Annual Gathering as I arrived for worship, I picked up a headset to hear the English interpretation of worship that was held primarily in Spanish, but...

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Being a multi-mission partner church

When describing our church family at First Baptist Pensacola, I usually tell folks that we are a “multi-mission partner, multi-worship service, and multi-generational congregation.”  Each of those...

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The Church and the U.S. Marines

Recently I’ve visited several churches. I’ve noticed something in common about all of them, and it’s something that is disconcerting for an organization whose primary purpose is to help people have a...

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CBF, a candle in search of darkness

Every good story needs an antagonist, a villain, and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship story doesn’t have one. I was a graduate student at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville when...

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What kind of Baptist are you?

Do you know the story that periodically makes the rounds about the guy standing on the edge of a bridge ready to jump off to commit suicide? Along comes another person who engages him in conversation...

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To discern God in the world

As social media exploded with the news of the SCOTUS’ decision, I wondered how this decision would impact the national Cooperative Baptist Fellowship conference. Would the agenda change? Would speakers...

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Do we need denominations in the 21st Century?

Those of us who worked in denominational roles in past years often referred to ourselves as “denominational serpents” rather than denominational servants, questioning the motivations of the...

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What do Millennials want from denominations?

Associated Baptist Press writer Jeff Brumley recently posted an article responding to research by the Public Religion Research Institute suggesting that “the rise of religious progressives and a...

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Baptist conservatives should celebrate their heroes quickly

Artisans with the Don Young Glass Studio, Star-Telegram photo According to a front page, above-the-fold, article in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has launched...

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Choose ye this day diversity

A strong, natural, cultural tendency among humankind—even those committed to loving all people—is to be in community with those considered to be “our kind of people”. The tendency is to swarm with...

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FutureBaptists: A collaborative missional movement

March 6thand 7th a diverse group of Baptists from North America gathered in Philadelphia for the 50th anniversary of the North American Baptist Fellowship [NABF] of the Baptist World Alliance. Using...

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Churchcraft

I have coined a new word: Churchcraft. What I mean by Churchcraft is an individual’s ability to say and do the things that will help to build the organized church. My observation is that a lack of...

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Leadership for a “Denominetwork”

Women leaders.  Diversity in worship. Babies in strollers and toddlers in arms.  Faithful friends.  New relationships.  Creative initiatives.  All of these are impressions that I brought back from the...

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The taller I become….

We’re remembering the Freedom Summer of 1964 this year, fifty years later. During those momentous times in US history, a broad group of organizations worked together to break the tyranny of the Jim...

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Denominations Now Provide Fewer Resources for Congregations

[This is the second in a series of posts about the transformation occurring in denominations in North America. The first several posts are about things no longer part of denominations—at least to the...

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