Thank you to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ for blessing me to play the sport I so dearly love for almost three decades. Emmitt Smith Thank you. Thank you. I am still standing. And I give all the glory to my Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Floyd Little My last couple words I want…
Bad Service: To Forgive & Forget?
“How was everything?” asked the waiter as we finished our staff luncheon at a new restaurant in town. “Fine,” was the standard reply from those who managed to get any words out. The others, not wanting to say what they really thought of the dining experience, filed out the door quietly. We had come to celebrate the…
Weekend Seven: Gay Marriage & Baptist Fights
What a wild and wacky week. From a landmark ruling in the California Prop 8 case striking down the gay marriage ban to Baptist battles over women in ministry and who Christians and Muslims worship to staged fights by a Baptist church, we are seeing a collision of law, religion, and politics at unprecedented levels. Here…
Sign or Else: Creeds, Confessions, & Church
“We (Southern Baptists) are not a creedal people and we are not a denomination.” As a teenager growing up at First Baptist Church of Lake Placid, Florida, I was often reminded of this Baptist history by Dr. Fitzgerald, one of our church’s deacons who also happened to be a History Professor at the local community college. After graduating from…
Prop 8 Judge: Legally Right, Morally Wrong!
In his stunningly unsurprising and entirely predictable ruling handed down yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled Prop 8 unconstitutional. The popular ballot initiative, which was passed by a 52% majority of California voters in 2008, amended the state constitution to provide that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” …