Contest

For interested parties, the Baptist Joint Committee is accepting entries for its 2008 Religious Liberty Essay Contest. The contest is for Baptist high school juniors and juniors and offers cash prizes and a trip to Washington, D.C
Visit www.BJConline.org/contest to download registration materials and a promotional flier. For more information, contact Phallan Davis at 202-544-4226 or [...]

Living Your Faith

I have a friend who is a pastor, and the other day we were talking about this missional church thing.  He said something that confirmed some thoughts that I have had for a while.  He said that it used to be that the thing that unified a church was the worship service, and, in his [...]

The McDonaldization of the Church?!?–You want fries with that?

A reflection on:
Drane, John, 2001. The McDonaldization of the Church: Consumer Culture and the Church’s Future. Macon, GA: Smith and Helwys Publishing.
John Drane is the former Head of Practical Theology in the Department of Divinity at the University of Aberdeen. He currently holds teaching positions at Fuller Seminary’s School of Theology in Pasadena, California, [...]

What’s a CBF Anyway?

Let’s get this thing started. Since it’s supposed to be (among other things) a place for Fellowship people to discuss things, let’s discuss.
What’s a “CBF” anyway?
We all know the oft romanticized story of CBF’s beginnings. Moderate Baptists pulled out of the Southern Baptist Convention after more than 15 years of struggling against a political takeover [...]