Telling the Story of Tennessee Baptists Since 1835
June 2, 2017
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector No one knows you better than your spouse. You can put on a “front” when you leave home, but at the house, not so much. God has blessed me with a wonderful wife for almost 36 years. Joyce always has been a wonderful support and encouragement to me […]
June 1, 2017
By Johnnie Godwin Contributing Columnist, B&R A margin is a boundary, a border, or an edge. To be in the margin in printing or in life means to be close to the limit of value or usefulness — to be of minor effect or importance. In society — since 1970 — to be marginalized refers […]
May 31, 2017
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector The secular world is always quick to point out the faults of Christians in general and Baptists in particular. But they don’t always give Baptists credit for the things Baptists do well. And one of those “things” is quickly responding to people’s needs. On Saturday night, May 27, […]
May 31, 2017
By Connie Davis Bushey News Editor, Baptist and Reflector “All good things must come to an end.” That sounds like the kind of “consolation” my tough-minded, unsentimental, plain-spoken mother, Emeline Glessner Davis, would give me and my two sisters in times of disappointment. Helping my mom raise us were members of First Baptist Church, El […]
May 30, 2017
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President & Executive Director There are moments in life that are so obviously important that they need not scream to be recognized. The magnitude of their presence halts the daily hustle and quietly demands that we notice, and reflect, and determine that the nostalgic moment becomes a prelude to something […]
May 26, 2017
By Jake McCandless Baptist Press MOUNT VERNON, Ark. (BP) — Attendance numbers, professions of faith, baptisms and sexual purity commitment cards showed I was leading a successful student ministry years ago, yet I’m not sure I prepared my students for what was ahead. In the process of planning a family outing over Memorial Day weekend […]
May 18, 2017
By Kevin Shrum Pastor, Inglewood Baptist Church, Nashville We live in interesting days, do we not? With hostile adversaries overseas and serious divisions at home, most of us are looking for a more reasonable and peaceful civility that seems to have escaped us. Cultural unity eludes us. The public square is now naked, laid bare […]
May 17, 2017
By Lonnie Wilkey Editor, Baptist and Reflector “Change” is a “four-letter word” for most Baptists, so I’m going to use the word “transition.” Life is a series of transitions, both personally and professionally. For the past three years or so, your state newspaper has been in transition and it continues. In this issue is a […]
May 16, 2017
By Tim Bearden Senior Manager, TN Baptist Conference Centers My camp experience began when I was about 10 years old. A group of boys from a small town in Georgia was loaded up in cars and driven to Camp Glynn in Brunswick, Ga., to attend Royal Ambassador Camp. That trip began my lifelong love for […]
May 16, 2017
By William F. Maxwell Administrative Director, TBMB I love Carson Springs and Linden Valley Baptist Conference Centers and Camps! I love the locations and I love the ministry. But then, camps and conference centers have been special to me since I gave my life to Jesus at camp as a nine-year-old boy. It started with […]
May 12, 2017
By Carolyn Tomlin Contributing Writer, B&R The history of Mother’s Day goes back to ancient Greek and Roman civilizations. But the official date of the U.S. holiday is just over 100 years old. Miss Anna Jarvis is recognized as the founder of Mother’s Day. Jarvis never married or had children, but wanted to honor her […]
May 11, 2017
By Randy C. Davis TBMB President/Executive Director Wilkerson V. Jones would’ve turned 100 this coming July 4th. He was well known all over Mobile, Ala. It seemed as if he knew everybody and everybody knew him. He is a member of the Mobile Sports Hall of Fame, was active in his church, and was tall, handsome […]