My longtime friend Buddy Shurden, Emeritus
Minister at Large, Mercer University, recently wrote
for the publication,
Christian Ethics Today. Based on
his reading of William Sloane Coffin’s book,
The Heart
is a Little to the Left: Essays on...
As you know, I grew up a conservative Baptist.
No longer in vogue, even in Southern Baptist
circles, we had what was called the Six-Point
Record System.
A few years ago I read an opening
editorial in
Christian Century by John
Buchanan. Buchanan, a retired Presbyterian
pastor, entitled his piece, “Born again and
again.”
In a Christian Century column several years ago, John Buchanan, the former editor and retired Presbyterian minister, wrote about the things he misses about the pastorate in general and preaching in particular.