Aug 19, 2024 | Adults & Senior Adults, Latest News, Moderator
In our last Coordinating Council meeting, I shared this blurb from Eugene Peterson’s A Long Obedience in the Same Direction (quoting William Faulkner): “Life is not about making monuments, but about making footprints. A monument only says, ‘At least I got this far’...
Apr 25, 2024 | Latest News, Moderator
MY LATE GRANDFATHER dreamed of being a Baptist preacher, but he would not give up smoking, and he feared the responsibility of saving people’s souls. He pitched a fit when my parents crossed the state line to bring me into the world in Chattanooga, Tennessee. I am the...
Mar 7, 2024 | Latest News, Moderator
Sometimes it is nice to just be a monk for the weekend. As I visited Mepkin Abbey (near Charleston, SC) this fall, I was reminded of my first visit to a monastery 20 years ago. During that visit, I met Brother Edward, an incredibly kind and gracious man who shared my...
Aug 7, 2023 | Field Personnel, Field Personnel, Latest News, Missions, Missions, Moderator
THE TRIP WAS A YEAR in the making. As our family wrapped up our time in Uganda in the summer of 2022, Francis Angalla and I started scheming. Music is an integral part of the healing work that Francis and Missy Ward-Angalla (CBF Field Personnel), are doing with...
Feb 15, 2023 | Latest News, Moderator
It is time to celebrate! Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Georgia is 30 years old! During the 1980s, the fundamentalists took over the Southern Baptist Convention. At the Dallas convention in 1985, moderates knew they no longer had a home in the Southern Baptist...
Jan 30, 2023 | Latest News, Moderator
AS WE EMBARK on a new year together as CBF Georgia, it is customary to introduce myself as the new moderator for 2023. Though born in Mississippi, I call Memphis, Tennessee, my “hometown.” I joined the staff of First Baptist Church, Griffin, in 2018 after spending...
