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Independent organization proposed for long-term sexual abuse response among Southern Baptists
Metadata: Topic(s): Sexual AbuseFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: NASHVILLE (BP) — A soon-to-be launched independent non-profit organization will be devoted to helping Southern Baptist churches and entities prevent and respond to sexual abuse.
West African missionary returns ‘home,’ trains rural churches
Metadata: Topic(s): International Mission BoardFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: When International Mission Board missionary Moses knew that God was calling him to go make disciples on islands near Senegal, his knee-jerk response was no. His hesitance had nothing to do with disobedience or uncertainty about the islanders. It wasn’t about the persecution believers faced in these areas. The issue was that Moses couldn’t swim. Island ministry had to be off the table, for his own safety.
FIRST-PERSON: Yes, He Gets Us. Do we get Him? | Baptist Press
Metadata: Series: First PersonTopic(s): Theology & DoctrineFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: While 123.7 million Americans watched the Kansas City Chiefs defeat the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl, many saw the “He Gets Us” commercial, which stated that “Jesus didn’t teach hate. He washed feet.” Gallons of ink have been spilled as all stripes of Christians have opined about the strengths and weaknesses of the two “He Gets Us” ads which cost around $20 million.
Alabama Baptists work to build camp in Alaska
CRAIG, Alaska (BP) – There’s a piece of land nestled next to a lake in Alaska, and Tommy Bishop said when he’s there, he thinks of somewhere else. He thinks about Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center back home in Alabama, which has hosted camps and retreats for 75 years, and he reflects on the camp’s legacy. “In just about every church that I know, I know somebody who went to Shocco Springs, and they either got saved there or were discipled or maybe even were called to the ministry,” he said.
Great Commission Resurgence’s beginning, legacy under scrutiny
NASHVILLE (BP) — A report brought by the Great Commission Resurgence Task Force this June at the SBC annual meeting could be considered as one 15 years in the making. The group was formed last summer at the New Orleans gathering of Southern Baptists and has since spent considerable time in reviewing documents, conducting interviews and holding discussions over the impact of the GCR. Task Force chair Jay Adkins told Baptist Press that the group’s work has been kept close to the vest on purpose.
Georgia Baptist leader Thomas Hammond withdraws from EC consideration
SUWANEE, Ga. (BP) – In an email to the Georgia Baptist Mission Board’s executive committee on Tuesday (Jan. 23), GBMB Executive Director Thomas Hammond revealed that he had been selected as the candidate to lead the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee but had withdrawn his name. The search team had kept the candidate’s identity confidential.
EC to review legal strategy, forms work study group
Metadata: Topic(s): Executive CommitteeFormat(s): Text Articles Share this post: NASHVILLE (BP) – The SBC Executive Committee met in a special called executive session on Thursday afternoon (Nov. 16). The group took steps to create a work study group to review the EC’s and SBC’s “long-term legal strategy.” The decision follows the disclosure of the filing of an amicus brief in an abuse related case being argued in the Kentucky Supreme Court through a story in the Louisville Courier-Journal Oct. 25.
OPINION: Dangerous and Extreme?
By Todd E. Brady Congressman Mike Johnson of Louisiana was finally elected Speaker of the House on October 25, and now some losing their minds. According to what you read in the media, Johnson is a wacko. An extreme and dangerous man. A nut job.
OPINION: Fall, leaves, and my friend Barry Joyce
By Todd E. Brady Guest columnist Saturday, we left from our annual trip to the beach with family at 5:00 in the morning and rolled back into Jackson that same afternoon. It was the longest day of the year. After spending a week sitting on the beach and reading books during the day, eating Peel and Eat Shrimp for supper each night, and watching MLB Postseason Baseball on the couch late into the night, it was good to get back in the routine of day-to-day life in the community.
OPINION: The naked truth and Naked Attraction
by Todd E. Brady Guest columnist Max–the streaming platform that used to be HBO produces Naked Attraction, a British television show which features contestants seeing silhouettes of six naked individuals standing in six boxes behind colored screens. Little by little, from the feet upward the naked bodies are revealed. As more body parts are seen, a “chooser” critiques and scrutinizes the six fully nude bodies.
Reproxalap in Patients with Seasonal Allergic Conjunctivitis
Introduction Reproxalap, a novel chemical entity in late-stage clinical development for the treatment of ocular inflammation, chemically sequesters a class of small molecules known as reactive aldehyde species (RASP).
OPINION: Death, like life is not a pro-choice matter
By Todd E. Brady Columnist Not only are preborn babies in danger of losing their lives, but adults can also now crawl inside a Sarco—a coffin shaped assisted suicide pod where they can end their own lives with the push of a button. Philip Nitschke invented the Sarco. He is a former physician and the head of Exit International, a nonprofit group that advocates for assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia legislation.
OPINION: Clarity inspires. Vagueness produces doubting.
By Todd E. Brady Columnist Democratic Presidential candidate and popular anti-Vaxxer, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. recently muddied the waters concerning his stance on life and abortion. At the Iowa State Fair during an interview with an NBC reporter, he stated that if he were president he would support a ban on abortions on pregnancies after three months.
Your Voice: Losing respect without losing faith
By Todd E. Brady Special to The Baptist Paper You can lose respect for someone leading the cause without losing faith in the cause itself. Willie McLaurin has become the latest leader in an all-too-frequent line of leaders in Southern Baptist Convention life to leave in disgrace. McLaurin abruptly resigned from his role with the SBC Executive Committee Aug. 17 after admitting he had falsified information on his resumé (see story, page 18). Another cringe-worthy moment for the SBC.
OPINION: Losing respect without losing faith
By Todd E. Brady Columnist You can lose respect for someone leading the cause without losing faith in the cause itself. Last Thursday, Willie McLaurin, interim CEO of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee and the leading candidate for the permanent role abruptly resigned fter admitting he had falsified his resume. Another cringe-worthy moment for the SBC denomination. In recent years, several leaders within the SBC have resigned in ignominy.
OPINION: Living with kindness AND conviction produces confidence
By Todd E. Brady Columnist Cancel Culture has many people hesitant to say or do anything. They feel that whatever they say will come across wrong. On the other hand, they feel that if they stay silent, it too will come across wrong. They don’t feel they can win either way. I recently saw were someone innocently posted, “I prefer mangoes to oranges.” A random person replied, “So basically what you’re saying is you hate oranges? You also failed to mention pineapples, bananas, and grapefruits.
OPINION: A meaningful inefficiency
by Todd E. Brady Columnist We have a corporate prayer time each Sunday at church when we pray for a particular ministry or another congregation. When new people join our church or when church members are moving out of town, we also pray for them. Not only do we pray for them; we also pray over them. We get out of our seats, go toward them down front and are all connected as we lay hands on each other’s shoulders.
OPINION: Heroes along the way
by Todd E. Brady Columnist Friday, my oldest son finished his summer internship in Washington DC, so my mother and I made the trek up and back to pick him up. It’s been fun this summer talking to him at night and hearing about the exciting events of his day in the Beltway. It will be even better during these few weeks before school begins to talk with him and to watch baseball on TV each evening together. Mom and I took our time travelling to DC.
OPINION: Read the labels to save time, trouble
By Todd E. Brady Columnist My son, William and I go to breakfast each week. Saturday night, we decided that we would go to the Old Country Store the next morning before church. In addition to spending time with William, I started anticipating the red eye gravy and biscuits I would get. You know you have a great life when the last thing you think about at night and the first thing you think about the next morning is red eye gravy. It was hard to keep my eyes open at church.
OPINION: Men are called to work
By Todd E. Brady Columnist The first cassette tape (Remember those?) I owned and played in my stereo and Walkman (Remember those?) was called Men at Work by the Australian rock band Men at Work. As a teenager, I listened to songs like “Who Can It Be Now?,” “Down Under,” and “Be Good Johnny” with the name of that band top of mind and with the words “men” and “work” associated together. Looking back now, I realize that was my introduction to the idea that men work. Working is what a man does.
OPINION: Confused language indicates confused living
By Todd E. Brady Columnist A growing confusion exists concerning the misapplication of personal pronouns. When I was in elementary school, I learned that an English pronoun (I, you, he, she, it, we, they, me, him, her, us, them) showed contrasts between different nouns. A noun, I learned, is a person, place, or thing. I learned that a pronoun in a sentence correlated to a noun that was present in another sentence nearby.
OPINION: Going to the mountains is better with the family
By Todd E. Brady Guest columnist Attending a conference recently in the souvenir-saturated city of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, I was glaringly reminded of our society’s passionate obsession with consumerism. Since I had always heard about the tremendously oversized convenience store, I stopped at Buc-ee’s in Crossville on my way. With painted arrows on the concrete, I made my way around the 120 gas pumps and found a parking place among the sea of cars.
OPINION: Switching religions means leaving one and finding another
By Todd E. Brady Guest columnist Axios.com recently reported that a rising number of Americans are switching religions. They found that about a quarter of Americans who used to follow different religious traditions or denominations have made a switch. From their research, they found that 56% of American adults did so because they stopped believing in the religion’s teachings. 30% cited negative teachings about or treatment of LGBTQ+ people. 27% gave scandals among religious leaders as a reason.
Todd E. Brady: Lonely-not the way it’s supposed to be
Roy Orbison sang about loneliness in the 60’s. He sang that only the lonely knew the way he felt. There went his baby, there went his heart. Orbison experienced then what the US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy recently described in an 81-page report entitled “Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation”—something posing health risks as bad a smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
OPINION: Praying at the Carl Perkins Civic Center
by Todd E. Brady Guest columnist I’m thankful for the Jackson Area Ministerial Association who sponsored the Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast at the Carl Perkins Civic Center on May 4. I’m also thankful that the Mayor hosted this significant event for our city. How good to be a part of brothers and sisters across the city uniting to seek the Lord and ask for his guidance and blessing. I’ve said for some time that what you permit, you promote.
OPINION: The danger of a simple greeting
By Todd E. Brady Guest columnist Be careful what you say. You could lose your job saying hello. While the newest Supreme Court Justice here in the United States cannot define “woman,” a teacher in the United Kingdom no longer has her job as a result of greeting her class with the phrase “good afternoon, girls.” The amazing thing about this true story is that the teacher taught at an all-girls school.
OPINION: God is the ruler yet
By Todd E. Brady Guest columnist The dark and evil act which took place at Covenant School in Nashville on March 27 has weighed on many of us with an especially heavy and incalculable grief. Maybe it looms larger because it’s just down the road. Maybe it’s because many of us personally know some who are affected. Maybe the evil of it is compounded in our minds because it involved the deaths of three children and three adults in a Christian school. There simply are no words.
Todd Brady: Christianity without Paul would not be Christianity
Editor's Note: This column is in response to "What would Christianity be without Paul?" by Chris Highland published on March 4.
OPINION: Two Baptists, a Church of Christ, and a Methodist
By Todd E. Brady Guest columnist We walked into church to arrange furniture so we could have a funeral. The family and friends had not arrived yet. We were an hour early. The casket was going front and center with flower arrangements on each side. The registry book had been placed in the foyer so that attendees could record their attendance. To get things set up, we had to move the church’s Communion Table up to the platform. We were told it was heavy. Real heavy.
OPINION: Which is more important: Life or money?
By Todd E. Brady Union University While people many times don’t show their cards. Sometimes they do, and it’s as clear as bell. Michael Hugo just said it. He didn’t beat around the bush. There was no nuance of his value of economic finances over human life. The citizens of his community saw his true colors, and those colors were dark and shady—even deadly. It is obvious that this is a guy who is more concerned about the bottom line of his bank account than he is about the life in front of him.
Todd E. Brady: The State of the Union is in danger
The President’s annual State of the Union address before Congress is much like the Super Bowl for political junkies. The pomp, the tradition, the personalities, and most importantly the speech all makes for a great evening. This past Tuesday, America listened as the President of the United States predictably spoke about jobs, inflation, international threats, and more.
Todd E. Brady: Checking the right things
| Special to the Jackson Sun What are we teaching our children to check? We need to ask this question because our kids are going to check something.
Todd E. Brady: Believe
Todd E. Brady During the holidays, there is lots of talk about believing. To believe is to accept something as true. Not long ago, I nearly broke my foot on the brake pedal as I tried to stop the car. The problem with trying to stop the car is that the car was not moving; I simply believed it was moving. Sitting still in several lanes of traffic, cars in the turn lane to my left started moving forward. Instead of realizing that they were moving forward, I believed I was moving backward.
Can churches balance diversity, inclusion with being biblical, spirit-filled?
By Todd Brady | Wednesday, November 09, 2022 Not only is society becoming more and more polarized as the general population is moving to the edges of the political spectrum, but even the Christian subset of the population is moving around based on their religious beliefs. While every religious denomination faces its own issues and challenges, the United Methodist Church is experiencing movement within its ranks these days.
Todd Brady: Families. Eat together. Your kids will be better off.
Todd E. Brady It may be that the best thing you can do for your kids is to sit the whole family down and have dinner together. Research is showing that there is a significant number of kids who never actually sit down with their family to enjoy a meal together, and it may be that parents are the ones who are contributing to a society that is more overweight, more anxious, and more depressed. Sure, if Johnny doesn’t make it to football practice, he may not perform as well on the field.
Controversial little words
Todd E. Brady I, he, him, her, it, me, she, them, they, us, we, you. These are now some of the most controversial words in the English language. Little did we realize as elementary school children, that such a basic element of the reading, writing, and arithmetic that we were learning would one day be something that eventually gave rise to job security and even jail time.
Todd E. Brady: The Costliness of Forgiveness
Todd E. Brady Last week, President Biden announced that he would erase student debt up to $10,000 for every person making less than $125,000 in income. For those who receive a Pell Grant, their debt elimination would rise to $20,000. The decision by the president to unilaterally spend $330-$800 billion of taxpayers’ money will have tremendous implications. Some say that those implications will be beneficial. Others say they will be detrimental to the economy.
Todd E. Brady: A parents’ joy
Todd E. Brady One’s own joy is a real thing. One’s own joy which is found in the joy of a child is deeper and greater. Major League Baseball is not only a national pastime but a personal pastime. We sat in front of the television on many nights this summer watching baseball games, and a special highlight was going to California to watch a few games in several professional baseball parks. We watched the Colorado Rockies play the San Diego Padres in Petco Park.
SBC DIGEST: 2022 Black church conference; Falls Creek camper hospitalized; McLaurin receives Dodd Award
2022 Black church conference July 18-22 at Ridgecrest By Diana Chandler RIDGECREST (NC) – The 29th annual Black Church Leadership and Family Conference will be held July 18-22 onsite at Ridgecrest Conference Center in Ridgecrest, N.C., with select program activities concurrently online at Live.Lifeway.com.
Southern Baptists, sexual abuse, and a call to good and godly living | Opinion
TODD BRADY Union University Last summer at the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, messengers overwhelmingly called for an independent investigation into sexual abuse allegations within our denomination. A week ago (May 22), the report of that investigation produced by Guidepost Solutions was released to the public. The report reviewed cases and claims of alleged mishandling of sexual abuse between January 1, 2000 and June 14, 2021.
President Biden says 'abort a child' | Opinion
TODD BRADY Union University Sometimes the clearest expressions are unintended. President Joe Biden, not always known for his clarity, spoke clearly after the recent leak of the United States Supreme Court’s draft concerning a majority opinion which gave indication that Roe v. Wade might be overturned. History was unfortunately made May 2 as Politico.com not only communicated the potential reversal of Roe v.
Teenagers put the food away | Opinion
TODD BRADY Union University Benjamin became a teenager today. We now have four teenage young men living in our house. Ages 13, 14, 16, and 18. They have a 9-year-old brother who adds to all the excitement around our house. Mama said there’d be days like this, but I never thought they would come so soon. Just yesterday, the boys were little, wearing bibs, and sitting in highchairs around the kitchen table. Today, size 13 shoes lie in the den, and we can’t keep enough food in the refrigerator.
Friends lift you up when things fall down | Opinion
TODD BRADY Union University Storms and their aftermath often reveal a lot about your friends. Not too long ago, Proverbs 18:24 came riding on a tractor in my backyard. “A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” A storm recently hit our yard, trees fell, my neighbor cranked up his chain saw, and a friend brought over his tractor.
Will Smith, Chris Rock and the rest of us: 3 wrongs don’t make a right | Opinion
TODD BRADY Union University Sunday night, Will Smith showed us all what our grandmothers taught us when we were little. Two wrongs don’t make a right. At the Academy Awards, host Chris Rock made a joke at the expense of Will Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith. Pinkett Smith has shared before about her struggle with alopecia--a hair loss condition. Rock jokingly said that he looked forward to seeing her in “G.I Jane 2’--a reference to her shaved head. Wrong number one.
Baseball HoF character standards: No dumping | Opinion
The elimination of standards is no way to handle any situation, regardless of how difficult. This is exactly what Fay Vincent, Former Commissioner of Major League Baseball (1989-1992) suggested recently in a Wall Street Journal Opinion column. His Jan. 28 title crassly screamed, “Dump the Character Standard for Baseball’s Hall of Fame.” The article came on the heels of the most recent Baseball Hall of Fame vote. Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was voted into the Hall. A well-deserved honor.
Nuts: West Lafayette, Indiana’s proposed Ordinance 31-21 | Opinion
“That’s nuts.” This is Regent School of Law professor Brad Jacob’s description of West Lafayette, Indiana’s City Council proposed Ordinance 31-21. West Lafayette has a population of 54, 590 people. Seeking to ban unlicensed persons from practicing conversion therapy, the city council is saying that one church’s Biblical counseling ministry is synonymous with conversion therapy. This is not the case.
Conner Peterson would be 18 if his father had not killed him | Opinion
Conner Peterson would be 18 if his father had not killed him. Most may not remember the sensational experience, but Conner’s dad was criminally convicted over 15 years ago of killing him and his mother. Prosecutors said that Peterson took his wife’s body and the unborn life within her womb from their home in Modesto, California on Christmas Eve 2002 and dumped them in the San Francisco Bay.
Old paths, not popular paths | Opinion
Earlier this month, the Deseret News and the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University revealed their findings from the 2021 American Family Survey. This survey seeks to shed light on Americans’ experiences in relationships, marriage and families and how those experiences relate to current events and public policy.
Following Jesus is not about what you give God | Opinion
Beware of huckster preachers who beg for money and say that God’s blessings or His Work are in some way contingent on your financial giving. Louisiana evangelist Jesse Duplantis has been known for saying that God told him to believe that He was going to give him a Falcon 7X Jet aircraft and that Duplantis would not have to pay for it. Trying to explain later how he talked about it with his followers, Duplantis said "First things first, I never raised money for the plane.
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