I’ve received numerous messages, emails, and texts in the days since the announcement that I would become the next editor of The Christian Index. For all of those I’m extremely humbled. Since …

NOTE: Originally published on June 4, this updated version reflects information since provided by Shelby Sharpe, legal counsel for Paige Patterson. All of us have been besieged by the floodtide …

On June 5 the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Colorado baker Jack Phillips, owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, regarding his refusal to provide a cake for a gay wedding. WIKIPEDIA COMMON/Jeffrey …

Yesterday I wrote an editorial entitled “What to Expect at the Southern Baptist Convention. In an effort to give Dr. Paige Patterson the benefit of the doubt I suggested that he may want to preach …

I was at the much-heralded Southern Baptist Convention in Dallas in 1985. Gregory Wills, professor of church history and dean of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, called the 1985 annual meeting …

Have attitudes shifted toward gay marriages? Last August Macon’s First Baptist Church of Christ, a church aligned with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, voted to allow same-sex marriage …

On May 13 the United States Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision ruled, “Congress can regulate sports gambling directly, but if it elects not to do so, each state is free to act on its own. Our job is …

If Southern Baptists were as zealous to share the message of salvation, as they are to hurl words of condemnation and denunciation at one another, life would be more peaceful, our ministries would be …

John and Shirley Harris I have never claimed to be very smart. In fact, I don’t even know how I got this job as editor of The Christian Index. However, like the guy on the Farmers Insurance …

John Marty and Scott Dibble, Democratic state senators from Minnesota, are opposed to a bill asking schools to display posters with the words “In God We Trust.” Marty took the matter a step …

I like Sarah Huckabee Sanders and think she is an honest, straightforward White House press secretary; and I did not like the way Michelle Wolf skewered her at the recent White House …

I was at a restaurant with a group of Baptist men several years ago. It was a convivial time of fun and frivolity for the most part, but during the course of the conversation one of the men told a …

I watched the funeral service of Barbara Bush, 92, the wife of the forty-first President of the United States, George Herbert Walker Bush. The service was held in the beautiful cathedral-like St. …

Rick Newman, author and economist, commented, “Change is not always a good thing. It may force us out of tired habits and impose better ones upon us, but it can also be stressful, costly and even …

Getty Images I have written about the culture wars, the social order of the day, political corruption, secular humanists, and a myriad of things in my 15 years as editor of The Christian Index. …

Mike Griffin, our Public Affairs representative under the Gold Dome, gave a report relative to this year’s legislative session to the Georgia Baptist Mission Board Public Affairs Committee this …

Jesus declared Himself to be “the light of the world” (John 8:12). And He declared that his disciples “are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). In a world that is getting increasingly …

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC stands 30 feet tall of solid granite. It was dedicated in 2011, 48 years after his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the nearby …

The Bible is a book of invitations; and Baptists have become known as guardians of God’s invitation. Evangelist Keith Fordham recently had lunch with a Methodist pastor, who said, “The one unique …

FOX News reported today that in the Philippines seven people were nailed to wooden crosses in a Good Friday reenactment of Jesus Christ’s suffering on Golgotha more than 2,000 years ago. One woman …

I love Easter and all that it means to believers around the world. In the northern hemisphere Easter is the time when winter with all of its cold and darkness is awakened with color and life. In …

Former Georgia Governor Zell Miller passed away on Friday, March 23 at age 86 following a battle with Parkinson’s disease. It sounds strange in the current political climate, but Miller was an …

The origin of April Fools’ Day is not easy to pinpoint. Some trace it all the way back to Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales in 1392. Others contend that it dates back to the late 1500s …

Okay, I know the answer to that question. I want to allay your concerns about my faith, my sanity and my theology in this first paragraph; and so my answer to that question is an emphatic, …

Professed atheist Stephen Hawking, who was called “Einstein” by his classmates as a schoolboy, is dead. Recognized as one of the world’s most brilliant men, Hawking recently served as the …