Articles

Article Trusting God in Times of Suffering
- By Sheila Walsh
- Posted on June 23rd, 2011
How often do you feel battered and bruised by the unexpected storms of life? Do you ever feel that at times suffering and pain seem to be getting the upper hand? This is…
Article Rob Bell, the SBC, and the Age of Accountability
- By Rachel Held Evans
- Posted on June 22nd, 2011
As you may have heard, last week the Southern Baptist Convention responded to pastor Rob Bell’s controversial book, Love Wins, with a resolution declaring that “the…
Article SBC a “One Issue Voter” on the New NIV
- By Jessica Miller Kelley
- Posted on June 19th, 2011
In their annual meeting this week in Phoenix, the Southern Baptist Convention voted “not to commend” (and thus, not to sell in Lifeway bookstores) the new NIV Bible…
Article 4 Tips to Increase Youth Attendance
- By Abingdon Youth
- Posted on June 17th, 2011
We all know how hard it is to build--and keep--a critical mass of young people in your youth program. Activities compete for their time, enthusiasm waxes and wanes, and the rest…
Article Love and Suffering
- By Randy Horick
- Posted on June 17th, 2011
Even for people familiar with the destruction tornados can inflict, the images from Joplin, Missouri, were horrific. Wide swaths of the city with a population of 50,000 were…
Article Making the Faithful Choice
- By Melissa Slocum
- Posted on June 17th, 2011
Heavy winter snows in the upper Midwest and heavy rains and storms throughout the Ohio Valley in April converged in May to cause record-breaking flooding in towns all along the…