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Option vote kicks air from committee’s lungs

November 12 2008 by Norman Jameson, BR editor

That hissing sound you hear is air whooshing from the lungs of members of the Giving Plans Study Committee—and the 45 percent of messengers who supported their proposal to adopt a single giving plan, with options. The other 55 percent of messengers said clearly they do not want the option of allowing churches to pass money to the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship through the Baptist State Convention...

Akin on target knocking Obama naysayers

November 10 2008 by Norman Jameson, BR editor

Attending the meetings associated with the annual session of the Baptist State Convention often means a high calorie verbal diet of preachers’ sugar sticks delivered to the choir. They preach it like we want to hear it. They gig the guilty, cajole the complacent and encourage the eager in a like-minded audience. So Danny Akin’s collar jerk came as a surprise when he included a sharp rebuke t...

Changing face offers church clues

November 6 2008 by Norman Jameson, BR editor

It was way past my bedtime Tuesday night but the atmospheric electricity across America, and even the world, kept me up as Americans elected Barack Obama to be our next president. I wanted to hear what he would say to us the first time he spoke with the baton in hand. I wasn’t disappointed as his address was inspirational and masterful. ...

Throw the bums out

November 3 2008 by Norman Jameson, BR editor

I once interviewed a beautiful Houston actress about her involvement in multi-housing ministry. When I learned she had just left a relationship that had been abusive for years and continued even after she had a baby, I asked her to explain something that has always bothered me: Why do women stay with abusive men? She answered simply that huddling in a closet with her child, knowing that the footf...

Peace comes with time, not title

October 27 2008 by Norman Jameson, BR Editor

Thoughtful pastors are reminding their church members every week that God is faithful and unchanging, even while most of us feel sea sick from the financial tempest tossing world economies on the rocks. Jesus followers, we’re reminded, ought not be captive to the fear and uncertainty that prevails among those whose identity, life and security are tied up in their jobs ...

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Option vote kicks air from committee’s lungs

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