I don’t know if Al Letson is a Christian. I don’t know if he is a person of faith of any stripe.

This week marked the seventy-second anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, events that brought the Second World War to an appropriately horrific conclusion.

I visited the cardiologist yesterday.

I just read through a new brochure from the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists (AWAB), entitled “Queer & Faithful?”

If you follow Major League Baseball, you probably heard the story. In fact, even if you’re not a baseball fan, you may have heard about the incident that took place last week in Boston.

I'm writing this in the fellowship hall of Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, the host site for the Alliance of Baptists' Annual Gathering.

Tuesday, April 4, marked the forty-ninth anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Can you feel it? We have entered what for Christians are the holiest four days of the year.

As I write this post, I am looking out my office window toward Lane Avenue. The sun is shining, a light breeze is shaking the bushes and the ivy on the hill, and the temperature is in the upper fifties and climbing.

Of all the disturbing and nefarious aspects of the chaotic rollout of the Trump Administration, one that may be the most insidious, even deadly, is the way it dominates the news cycle in this country, to the detriment of other, more important stories.

A couple of years ago a friend of mine was dismayed when she found out that I was reading a book called The Good Funeral.

Last Thursday evening in his State of the City address, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther touted the successes of the first year of his administration