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John Wayne as Big Jake on Denominations

One of my guilty pleasures is watching old Westerns. These movies create a “West of the Imagination.” However, when I heard the Martin Marty lecture on the future of the Baptist denomination on Monday night, and more so when I read the recentg article on the lecture that appeared in the Baylor Lariat I was [...]

After the Fire, After the Flood

I had just come back from the gym and was getting a little breakfast when the first airplane crashed into the towers on September 11, 2001. The metaphor that grabs me most about that day is fire; imagine the temperature that it took to melt the infrastructure of those buildings. I vividly remember thinking to [...]