2+ week, 5+ day ago   (943+ words) “Now remember what you were, my friends, when God called you” (1 Corinthians 1:26 GNT). “Life with friends is better around the campfire” reads the pillowcase atop the patchwork quilt gracing my bed in the rustic cabin I inhabit each summer at…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (836+ words) There are people who leave their mark through titles or positions, and there are those whose influence is measured in changed lives, strengthened faith, and generations inspired to worship. Allison Gilliam belongs to the latter. For nearly six decades, Allison…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (956+ words) My call to ministry was like a long dawn. I wasn’t born a Baptist. My parents became Christians as adults after a Navy commanding officer invited them to a Bible study. They went, not because it was a Bible study,…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (1294+ words) I was never ordained, never preached or had a ministerial title on a church staff. I married a young seminarian and helped him finish his last year of school, both of us working hard to pay bills, graduate, and find…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1065+ words) As I hiked in Montana last summer, I was mesmerized by the stream rushing alongside the trail. I grew up on the flat prairies of West Texas, where water was scarce and the tallest native trees were mesquite. Perhaps that’s…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1198+ words) A young woman from Mandalay, Burma—now Myanmar—never imagined one day she would become the minister of international and Asian ministries at a 165-year-old historic church and one of the leading faith-based community churches in San Antonio. I still cannot…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (1084+ words) The summer I turned 13, I went to a Youth Evangelism Conference in Dallas. Our youth group had been at Latham Springs Camp all week. We entered a coliseum with thousands of other young people from around the state ready to…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1623+ words) Chris Backert / Ascent Movement In my previous article, I provided an overview of the continuum on women in ministry within the evangelical sphere of the church in North America as a way of setting the context for Ascent’s perspective on…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (915+ words) Chris Backert / Ascent Movement Given the current conversation and controversy surrounding women in ministry, and the kind mention by the Baptist Standard of Ascent a few weeks ago, I have been asked multiple times, “What is Ascent’s position on women…...