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Fleming Rutledge on Justification

19 Dec 201617 Jul 2019

"God is using you in spite of yourself. We aren't responsible for making progress. Whatever progress is made will be the gift of God. Jesus said, "Fear not, little flock.…

Stephen Speers and I explore Jungwon (Fulbright: 1 Year Since)

13 Jul 201615 Jul 2019

For those of you who have been following my blog, you know that there is not much to follow. In short, this grant year, I have done horribly at documenting…

Why Southern Gothic Rules the World -MO Walsh

Second, the basket. The basket on this bike is full of vivid characters. Scholars are quick to call them “grotesques”, as they are often deformed or bigoted or violent but,…

Pentecostal power -Curtis Freeman

17 Jun 201517 Jun 2015

Pentecostal power Members of the Baptist World Alliance and the Pentecostal World Fellowship will meet this coming August in Quito, Ecuador, for a series of ecumenical conversations to begin asking…

The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding… Stephen Holmes

The primacy of the local church in Baptist understanding is best exemplified by the unusual Baptist use of the word ‘church’. There is no ‘Baptist church’ that is not a…

3 Things to Know About the Abercrombie Ruling- Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty- BJC

2 Jun 20152 Jun 2015

Writing for the majority, Justice Scalia said: Abercrombie’s argument that a neutral policy cannot constitute “intentional discrimination” may make sense in other contexts. But Title VII does not demand mere…

My alma mater featured my Fulbright grant award!

1 Jun 20152 Jun 2015

The feature includes all three Fulbright grant award recipients from Georgetown College: Collin Smith, Victoria Engelhardt, and me. All three of us are relatively recent alumni of the college. I…