Aug 18, 2014 | Supporting BWIM
There is nothing like finding a home to make me ask, “How deep? How wide? How much?” As I sat in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Decatur, Georgia, on June 25, worshiping alongside women and men who passionately, fervently, deeply believe that God can and does...
Aug 13, 2014 | Challenges in Calling
I can’t help but get squirmy and defensive when someone calls me out on my privilege. . . because I have an overwhelming, embarrassing amount of pride (the bad kind). because it’s so easy to confuse privilege with a lack of work ethic. because I have...
Aug 12, 2014 | Tuesday Prayers
Lord, Strengthen our sense of justice and our regard for the equal worth of other peoples and races. Grant to the rulers of nations faith in the possibility of peace through justice, and grant to the common people a new and stern enthusiasm for the cause of peace....
Aug 8, 2014 | Challenges in Calling
God is still waiting for Baptist churches to right the wrong of barring women from ordination and to embrace fully women’s pastoral leadership. Tomorrow, Watts Street Baptist Church, Durham, North Carolina, will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the first...
Aug 8, 2014 | +Pam Durso, Finding God in the Everyday
Ebola came to my city this past week. I am sure you have heard or read the news. Two American aid workers, infected with the Ebola virus, were transported to Georgia and are now being treated at Emory Hospital here in Atlanta. The reaction to their arrival has been...
