Every time I return home from a trip to El Paso or Las Cruces, it happens. I’m profiled. You see, there are border patrol checkpoints just outside of Alamogordo, NM, the place where…
Baptist Birds & Kentucky Mosques
As a transplanted Southerner living in the high desert of New Mexico, I am constantly trying to disciple the church flock on the finer points of our cherished Baptist distinctives. Every time…
Obama’s Strange Reassurances of Faith
“However, I think that President Obama, through some of his own words and actions, including his outreach efforts to the Muslim world, his seeming indifference and/or hostility to Israel, his cancellation of the National…
Religious Liberty: Do You Hear What I Hear?
When I hear someone use the phrase, “separation of church and state,” I admit that my first reaction is negative. While I am well aware of the history behind the…
A Bunker Mentality in the SBC?
“A bunker mentality is a slang phrase for a phenomenon that occurs when a group or individual stops taking new, pertinent information into account, and begins viewing outsiders as enemies,…