President Donald John Trump: Now What?
By now, we’ve all heard the surprising results of the election: Republican Donald John Trump will be the forty-fifth United States President. With all of the dissatisfaction and controversy, who would have thought that he would win the presidency? Yet, call it what you will—rural v. urban, nationalist v. populist, or whatever—here we are. Sizing Up the Situation In the history of our republic, we’ve only had five other presidents with...
A Brief Exploration of General Baptist Origins
by Jesse Owens Where did Baptists come from? Some have speculated they have always existed in some place or another since the time of John the Baptist. Others have contended that Baptists’ origins lay in the European Anabaptist movement of the sixteenth century. Still others have maintained that the Baptists sprung from the English Puritan and Separatist movements in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Baptists have at...
2016 Theological Symposium: The Theological Legacy of F. Leroy Forlines
by the Helwys Society Forum Last Monday and Tuesday, the Free Will Baptist Commission for Theological Integrity sponsored their twentieth annual Theological Symposium. Students, pastors, professors, and scholars of other sorts gathered at Memorial Auditorium on the campus of Welch College, in Nashville, Tennessee to hear presentations, which all, in some way, explored the theological legacy of F. Leroy Forlines. This theme was...
The Local Option: How Local Governments Are Our Best Hope
For many American politics seems out of control. As we enter the voting booth, all options make our skin crawl. We bemoan choosing between terrible and beyond terrible candidates, yet do little to remedy the situation. Rather than merely complaining every four years, we should proactively pursue a political framework that offers better representation. Federal politicians are too geographically and ideologically removed from their...
Transformational Leadership, Books, and Politics: An Interview with Allison Ball
by Frank Thornsbury You’ve probably heard the proverb, “Good leaders are also good readers.” Well, look no further for evidence of this truth than the life and career of Allison Ball, Kentucky’s state treasurer and the youngest female constitutional officer in the United States. She’s no stranger to the pages of an inspiring biography or a tangled spy yarn or the Book that matters the most. Indeed, Treasurer Ball herself seems to...
Recommended Books (Autumn 2016)
Francis Bacon wrote in his 1625 essay, “Of Studies,” that reading is a private delight which strengthens the mind and sharpens the personality. However, he remarked, there are various ways of reading and not all books deserve the same attention. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and...
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