When someone we love dies, we often hear, “I know they’re looking down on us,” or we see messages posted to them on Facebook as though they can read them from heaven. But how does this line up with Scripture?
Something isn’t adding up. Nearly every Sunday we sing about heaven. We preach the resurrection. We quote Paul’s words that “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.” But do we really believe it?
When Richard Ulrich offered to teach a summertime preaching class, he expected a handful of men in his congregation would be interested. “I thought we’d have five
AI experts are continuing to sound the alarm that growing advances in artificial intelligence could lead to the end of humanity as we know it. Meanwhile, other prominent leaders don’t appear quite ready to hit the panic button.
Over the past four years, I have written more than 100 columns for TAB Media Group through The Alabama Baptist and/or The Baptist Paper, focusing on congregations and associations. Now it is time to make a shift.
Mark Fugitt is wondering why nearly unlimited access to the Bible has not made people holier in general. The Southwest Missouri pastor explores this in “Quiet Time: The Past, Present, and Potential Power of Personal Bible Study.”
Ask a chatbot about a disputed Bible verse and you may get a tidy answer. Ask America’s pastors about the AI response, and you get a warning: That tidy answer could be a real problem.
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