I’ ve been celebrating over the last couple of days with the good news that receipts for the CBF Offering for Global Missions doubled in the month of July over the same month last year. This is a significant development, especially as July was the second month in a row that we have seen a … Continue reading
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A Call to Conversion
I once took a group of students in a world religions class to visit a mosque in the Atlanta area. As we headed home afterward, one student seemed particularly shaken by the experience. He leaned in toward me and said, “We could learn something from those folks about how to humble ourselves before God. We … Continue reading
Reflections on a Baptist Gathering
We just celebrated twenty years of CBF history at this past General Assembly in Tampa! I’ll have to confess that I didn’t have much time to pause in the midst of my responsibilities there to truly celebrate the moment–but I have had a few days for reflection since the event ended. I’m grateful for the … Continue reading
Update on CBF’s Response in Japan
We have been in direct email contact with the leadership of the Japan Baptist Convention and with other partners about our response to the devastation that has occurred there. A team from Baptist World Aid Rescue 24 is already on the scene to assess the damage and lead the world Baptist family to understand the … Continue reading
Beyond Otherness and Difference
I am convinced that the great challenge for many of us in the church today is a fear of otherness and difference. It makes sense. We live in a radically diverse world that necessitates constant interaction with people of other religions and ethnicities. This context is a fairly recent one on the US scene that … Continue reading
A Christmas Gift
I spent a few hours Christmas shopping last night. And I’ll admit that the experience did get me into the spirit of the season. But it also reminded me that gift-giving can often become a meaningless effort to give something simply to give something. Continue reading
Hope in Hiroshima
She is still alive . . . somehow. No one is sure how. Her hair is nestled in a glass case in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. Nearly all of it fell out in late August of 1945 as her mother brushed it just shortly after the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. She was eighteen … Continue reading
Looking Ahead: A Global Mission future
I’m convinced that the most significant moment to be on mission with God in the world is at the point of transitions . . . the times between. It is in such moments that we understand most clearly what God is doing in the world. Patterns that have served us well in the past seem … Continue reading
A Good Word from Brooklyn
I received a thank you note about a week ago from children who had attended CLUE camp in Brooklyn, New York this summer. These camps, a joint ministry of Greater Restoration Baptist Church in Brooklyn and Rauschenbusch Metro Ministries in Manhattan, provide a safe place for children in the summer to have fun in a … Continue reading
Aloha, Baptists!
I’ve just come from the Baptist World Alliance gathering held once every five years. It was arguably the best Baptist meeting I have attended in recent years (and I attend a bunch of them)! This one just happened to take place in Hawaii and attendees represented about 100 nations around the world. To say it … Continue reading
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