No Substitute for Belonging
Like most Christian mothers, Cathy was concerned about her children as they entered their teen years. She had participated in a dynamic church youth program that had been instrumental in shaping her Christian identity. She wanted something like that for her two children – Jim and Ann. But the church the family attended was a […]
About Bob Terry
Dr. Bobby S. (Bob) Terry serves as an Advisor to the President of Samford University for Faith Networks. A native of Alabama, Dr. Terry holds degrees from Mississippi College and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He was involved in state Baptist papers since 1968, retiring at the end of 2018 from The Alabama Baptist newspaper after serving for more than 23 years as it’s President and Editor-in-chief.
Follow him on Twitter at @drbobterry.
To contact Bob Terry, email bterry3@samford.edu.
Changing a Nation
By 1961 the nation had been in the troughs of the civil rights struggle for six years. In truth, the nation had struggled with civil rights since its founding, but the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott started an unprecedented chapter in this on-going struggle. On April 19, 1961, Martin Luther King stood behind the pulpit in […]
The Farm Bill and the Bible
One of the major pieces of legislation approved by the Congress of the United States this year was the Farm Bill. Every five years Congress is supposed to reauthorize the Farm Bill, which subsidizes agriculture production in the United States and funds various food assistance programs. The debate over the Farm Bill was acrimonious. The […]
How Ethical is the Clergy?
It may not be surprising to learn that non-Christians have a lower view of the clergy than self-identified Christians. What may be surprising is how low an opinion of the clergy both groups hold. According to a study released by Gallup on December 26, 2017, only 25 percent of non-Christians rated the honesty and ethics […]
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