Reflections on Stewardship of the Earth Luncheon, New Baptist Covenant

I saw an Inconvenient Truth when it first came out in 2005. I was inspired then – but left feeling like I hadn’t heard anything new from when I was an environmental studies major at Baylor University.
At the Stewardship of the Earth luncheon Thursday with Al Gore at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant [...]

David Gushee on Baptist experience and the New Baptist Covenant

This blog is about perspectives on being Baptist. Sometimes the best way to do this is for individuals to describe their personal Baptist history… David Gushee has a wonderful column over at Associated Baptist Press entitled, “My Baptist journey to the New Baptist Covenant”. He describes his conversion to Christianity in a Baptist [...]

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Today we ‘celebrate’ Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy.  Ethics Daily has a very appropriate column up today by Miguel de la Torre, entitled, “Help Wanted: Black Friend”.  He uses a segment from the Colbert Report to begin a discussion of what it means to have diversity and integration in our churches.
Colbert’s approach to racially and [...]

Young Adults and the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant

I’ve heard some people say that the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant will be sparsely attended by the “younger” generations- ie, those under 40.  The Celebration is on a Wednesday through Friday, so this is not an unreasonable assumption.  However, the assumption is wrong.
From TBYPN we have over 50 young adults traveling to the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Observations on young Baptists

As Alexis alerted us of, there has been a good discussion happening on the BGCT blog conerning Ken William’s article which appeared in the Baptist Standard last week. Alexis has asked me to post a version of my comments in that discussion here on the TBYPN blog.
These are my thoughts and observations. [...]

Enjoy Fantastic Preaching? Come hear this…

Associated Baptist Press published this story on the Preach-In occurring at the Celebration of a New Baptist Covenant in January 2008. Preachers from many different Baptist congregations will be on hand to fill our hearts and minds with the message of Christ. A significant draw will be the preaching of Rev. James Forbes:
James [...]

Baptist Unity

A comment over at the Texas Baptists blog on the next generation by a young pastor made mention of the fact that our generation has learned more about division than multiplication. And he’s right. But Baptists (who are Christians) should be about the business of multiplying the Kingdom not dividing it. Mitch [...]