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FIRST-PERSON: Liberty for all — a Baptist distinctive
(EDITOR’S NOTE — Sunday, July 6 is Religious Liberty Sunday in the Southern Baptist Convention.) As the echoes of Fourth of July fireworks fade and we turn our attention to the week ahead, Southern Baptists also will take a moment to celebrate a key freedom that Americans have long enjoyed and that Baptists have continually sought to defend... read more
Explainer: Supreme Court protects religious liberty, parents’ rights
The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision last week in Mahmoud v. Taylor, a landmark gender ideology indoctrination case, addressed parental rights and religious liberty in public education. The case challenged a Maryland school board policy requiring elementary students to participate in gender ideology lessons without parental notice or opt-out options, which placed a burden on families’ deeply held religious beliefs... read more
FIRST-PERSON: How ‘what’ and ‘why’ unify
The 2025 Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) annual meeting is behind us, and with it the meetings, reports, motions and actions that pleased some and disappointed others. I know that many church members and even pastors rarely or never attend an SBC annual meeting in person... read more
FIRST-PERSON: 10 years after Obergefell
A decade ago, the United States crossed a threshold when the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage throughout the country in Obergefell v. Hodges. Looking back, it is clear that the Court’s decision effectively codified our cultural descent into a no-holds barred approach to sexuality, and, a bit later, gender... read more
FIRST-PERSON: Cooperation — it’s worth it
Cooperation is hard. It has been difficult from the beginning of the church. As in Acts 6, when the apostles had to resolve a conflict between the Hellenists and the Hebrews. Or as in Acts 15, when Paul and Barnabas had “a sharp disagreement” which led them to separate from one another... read more
