Lesslie Newbigin: An Enduring Voice
The word missionary, like others, summons a mental snapshot when it’s heard. It is a smiling family on a glossy prayer card. It is a Christian college graduate with ideals about changing the world. It’s someone at a church convention who looks like us, but wears foreign attire. These images (and perhaps more) reflect our personal experience more than anything. Our recent emphasis month on the Forum addressed such themes. But something...
Faith & Finance: An Interview with Bill Evans (Part 2)
What follows is Part 2 of the Helwys Society Forum’s interview with Bill Evans. Readers may listen to the audio version here, or they may read the transcript below. (Part 1 was posted Monday and may be listened to or read.) Taxes Jackson Watts (“JW”): Just recently most Americans filed their income tax returns. Here we are on the date of this interview (April 24), and tax day has passed. Incidently, you help many people complete their...
Faith & Finance: An Interview with Bill Evans (Part 1)
Much could be said about the significance of money in contemporary life. For Free Will Baptists, there has not been a more important voice in the last twenty-five years than that of Bill Evans. Evans is a long-time pastor, financial counselor, tax preparer, and administrator. Though he and his wife Brenda are retired in Ashland, Kentucky, they still enjoy a fruitful ministry as they travel, write, teach, and preach in a number of...
Book Review: Killing Calvinism
Some books elicit interest due to their subject matter. Others do so because of their literary quality. For me, the title Killing Calvinism (Cruciform Press, 2012) was enough to arrest my attention. As a Baptist pastor with strong convictions about the doctrine of salvation, new books on theological systems frequently pique my interest. Regardless of our spiritual sensibilities about “systems,” we all tend to have them. Written by...
Finding God (ed. John Mulder)
Many believers are moved by hearing other Christians share accounts of their conversion experiences. In fact, one of the hallmarks of evangelical identity has been what historian David Bebbington calls “conversionism.” [1] He’s right—we believe that lives should be transformed through the new birth, otherwise called regeneration. Of course, not all experiences are equal. The conversion experience that most Baptists think of has its...
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