Houston & the Dawn of a Cooperative Ministry Resurgence?
On eight occasions Southern Baptists have convened their annual meeting in Houston, with none of these gatherings more consequential than 1979’s SBC. In that year messengers elected Adrian Rogers...
View ArticleWhere Have All the Young Adults Gone? Reflections on Why Young People Leave...
Why young adults leave the church is one of the most vexing questions facing the church today. A 2007 LifeWay Christian Resources survey indicated that 70 percent of 18–22 year-olds stop attending...
View ArticleJames P. Boyce & the Abiding Relevance of "Three Changes in Theological...
In the annals of Southern Baptist history, James P. Boyce’s position is secure. As seminal conceptualist, leading patron, theology professor, and founding president of the Southern Baptist Theological...
View ArticleA Learned Ministry: James P. Boyce & the Abiding Relevance of "Three Changes...
James P. Boyce’s “Three Changes in Theological Institutions” remains one of the most consequential addresses in the history of theological education and the most seminal one for Southern Baptists. As...
View ArticleThe Elliott Controversy & the 1963 BF&M: A 50-Year Retrospective
In 1963, Southern Baptists convened in Kansas City, Mo., and adopted the first-ever revision of the Baptist Faith & Message. Like the first BF&M—whose committee was chaired by E. Y. Mullins and...
View ArticleThe Worst Decision B. H. Carroll Never Made: Southern Seminary, the Whitsitt...
For Southern Baptists, B. H. Carroll is an iconic figure, and for Texas Baptists he is especially so. During his 28-year pastorate, the First Baptist Church of Waco, Texas became one of the state’s...
View ArticleHim We Proclaim: Heeding Spurgeon’s Call to Preach Jesus from the Entire Bible
On March 13, 1859, the preeminent preacher of Victorian England, Charles Spurgeon, delivered one of his most memorable sermons, “Christ Precious to Believers,” to a congregation of over 10,000. The...
View ArticleHere We Stand: Midwestern Seminary & Same-Sex Marriage
The 19th century Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismarck observed, “Political genius is hearing the distant hoof beat of the horse of history and then leaping to catch the passing horseman by the...
View ArticleSeven Questions Every Donor Should Ask: A Footnote on the World Vision...
This past week, the evangelical world jolted to attention when World Vision announced it would permit the employment of practicing homosexuals who are committed in a same-sex marriage relationship....
View ArticleAudio: Further Thoughts on Christian Stewardship and Funding Non-Profits
Last week Dick and Rich Bott invited me onto their radio program, “The Complete Story,” to elaborate on my recent article, “Seven Questions Every Donor Should Ask.” In that conversation, the Botts and...
View ArticleHeaven is for Real: Why I’m Skeptical of the Afterlife Industry
Heaven is for Real, a movie based upon the same-named book by Todd Burpo, recently debuted in theaters around the country. Like the book that preceded it, the movie has generated a great deal of...
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Carl Trueman, the Osteens & the Quest for Evangelical Identity
Sometimes I think Carl Trueman single-handedly preserves equilibrium in the universe with Joel & Victoria Osteen. The former is lucid, biblical, and relentlessly convictional. The latter...
View ArticleTo Your Tents O Israel: A 30-Year Retrospective on Roy Honeycutt’s Holy War...
Academic convocations are meant to feel consequential. Marked pageantry, like academic regalia and faculty processionals, typify these services in which the institution’s president often delivers words...
View ArticleWhy I Like to Read Biographies, and Why You Should Too*
“The history of the world is but the biography of great men,” argued Thomas Carlyle, the proponent of what has come to be known as the “Great Man Theory of History.” This theory suggests that the...
View ArticlePanel Discussion: The State of Evangelicalism
Last week I was pleased to welcome Dr. David Dockery, president of Trinity International University, to the campus of Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Dockery spoke in chapel on Tuesday,...
View ArticleHim We Proclaim: Heeding Spurgeon’s Call to Preach Jesus from the Entire Bible
On March 13, 1859, the preeminent preacher of Victorian England, Charles Spurgeon, delivered one of his most memorable sermons, “Christ Precious to Believers,” to a congregation of over 10,000. The...
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