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May 21, 2012 · 9:25 pm

FRANK IMPRESSIONS On Tail-lights and Headlights: Thinking about North Carolina’s Amendment One By Richard F. Wilson

This opinion piece by Rick appeared first on the Baptist History & Heritage Society website    http://www.baptisthistory.org/bhhs/bsb/bsb2012_05.html#second%20story

Richard F. WilsonRick Wilson is a teaching theologian at Mercer University, where he is chair of the Roberts Department of Christianity. Rick also is the current chair of the Commission on Christian Ethics of the Baptist World Alliance, and a member of the First Baptist Church of Christ at Macon, Georgia, where he has served as a deacon and a Sunday School teacher. His passions include the post-war recovery of Liberia, creative cooking, and the mysteries of professional baseball.

“Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” written in April 1963 by Baptist Martin Luther King, Jr., elevated political and religious engagement to a new level in the United States. Nearly sixty years later his frank and passionate words are as relevant as ever.

King took the church to task. He wrote: “So here we are moving toward the exit of the twentieth century with a Continue reading →

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March 27, 2012 · 1:17 am

What Happened to Religious Freedom?

Protesters in Pennsylvania

Dwight A. Moody

A few weeks ago the religious freedom of the American people was in danger of collapse; or so many people were telling us. We were at the tipping point, they said, on the verge of being pushed into the abyss of governmenal control and regulation. America would never be the same; religious liberty was all but gone; the line had been crossed; the end was in sight.

The issue, you recall, is whether people who work for a company can have access to health services regardless of the religious convictions of the owner or employer. The government says yes; some religious leaders say no.

This was the subject of serious national debate. Then, of course, Treyvon Martin was shot and killed, and the media moved on to another (and I would say, more serious) set of issues: race and guns. And last Sunday millions of people exercised their lost freedom of worship and gathered to pray, meditate, and protest that senseless violence. Continue reading →

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