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 …