John Grisham at the New Baptist Covenant

I love John Grisham’s books.  So I am additionally excited that he will be speaking at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in Atlanta, January 30-February 1, 2008.  Why is he speaking?
In announcing the addition of Grisham to the Covenant lineup Dec. 20, program co-chair Jimmy Allen described the author as “a Baptist [...]

Messy Ecclesiology

The following is a blog post from Craig Nash’s blog. on September 17, 2007.  Any of you who grew up Baptist– well, I think you may understand elementally what Craig is writing about.  Part of the purpose of this blog is to disseminate to a wider audience the voice of young Baptists- this is one [...]

Joining Together in Atlanta

Jimmy Carter has a brief opinion piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today, where he talks about “Global Divisions faced as Baptists Plan to Convene.  He is talking, of course, about the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant, in Atlanta, Georgia, January 30-February 1, 2008.  He writes:
One of the basic premises will be that the doors [...]

Family Reunions…Lynchings or Love-ins?

An article by Peggy Hester, of North Carolina:
Michael and I are talking about going to a family reunion in January, a Baptist family reunion. It is the first Baptist event that has caught my imagination in a long, long while. The purpose is not to start a new denomination but to establish connection and [...]

Baptists in the Community- Voluntary cooperation of churches

I hear a lot that my generation is “post-denomination” and they feel that denominations are rather useless.  I have to disagree on several levels.  On the most basic front, however, Baptists have a distinctive that our denominations are built from the bottom up- individual churches voluntarily cooperate together in an effort to do more with [...]

Feedback on the Priesthood of all Believers

In thinking about Baptist distinctives, one of the most important, yet simultaneously troubling, is the priesthood of all believers.
As Baptists, we all believe that we each have direct access to God without the need for a mediator (aside from Christ). I firmly believe the priesthood of all believers to be the single most important [...]