Oct 24, 2018 | +Leadership, Julie Long, Weekly Words
I grew up as the sister of a brother who is four years older than I am and as the only girl in a neighborhood full of boys around my age. I learned early on how to become “one of the guys.” Sometimes I played with my dolls by myself, but often I played outside with...
Oct 17, 2018 | +Leadership, Weekly Words
Kasey Jones serves as the associate coordinator of strategic operations and outreach of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship in Decatur, Georgia. She previously was senior pastor for ten years of National Baptist Memorial Church in Washington, D.C., Kasey was the...
Oct 10, 2018 | +Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force, Weekly Words
In June 2016, Baptist Women in Ministry and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship formally launched a joint Clergy Sexual Misconduct Task Force. Members of the task force could not have imagined two years ago the degree to which conversations about sexual abuse would...
Oct 10, 2018 | Weekly Words
The Center for Congregational Ethics provides resources for Christian ethics education in local churches, including daily reflections on readings from the Revised Common Lectionary and a series called “The Right, The Good, The Happy.” Both resources are available on...
Sep 26, 2018 | Weekly Words
A couple of years into my tenure as minister of children and families at First Baptist Church of Christ, Macon, Georgia, I went to eat lunch at school with one of my first graders. Anna was excited that I was coming, and she greeted me with a picture she had drawn. I...
Sep 6, 2018 | Weekly Words
In 2013, pictures of men sitting on subways with their legs spread wide apart took the Internet by storm. Soon the word “manspreading” would be coined to explain this social phenomenon. Manspreading is the practice of men sitting with their legs wide apart...
