Circulation and readership is growing at a remarkable pace for The Pathway, bucking a trend that many other state convention newspapers are experiencing. While The Pathway flourishes, Missouri Baptists should be aware that is not the case for many other state convention newspapers throughout the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). It is an issue deserving of much-needed discussion by Southern Baptists. The SBC’s viability may turn on how this issue is treated. Secular printed newspapers … [Read more...]
Offering praise when government leaders do good
Put me at the head of the class when it comes to criticizing public officials when I think they have made a poor decision. I strive not to let my temper get the best of me when doing so, avoiding personal attacks at all cost. After all, I have a personal testimony on display and I want Christ lifted up. I try to focus my criticism at the consequences of their actions. For example, if they pass laws that threaten our freedom or are contrary to God’s Word, they are going to hear from me. … [Read more...]
If the GOP is pro-life, pro-moms, then prove it!
Republicans consistently run for office as pro-life candidates. The party’s opposition to abortion is in its national plank that outlines the GOP’s positions on issues. This makes the recent behavior of the Missouri Senate so puzzling, if not downright inexcusable. Here is what has happened: First, a federal judge issued a ruling that invited an expansion of abortion clinics in Missouri (currently only one – in St. Louis – exists). Then the St. Louis City Council passed an outrageous … [Read more...]
Foster care, pro-life bills reflect compassion
These are potentially good days for Missouri’s children and pregnant moms who need assistance. Gov. Eric Greitens recently signed a bill into law that will safeguard children across the state, especially those in foster care. Known as Senate Bill 160, sponsored by Reps. Diane Franklin (R-Camdenton) and Cloris Brown (R-St. Louis) along with Sen. David Sater (R-Cassville), the new law is designed to ensure the protection of children from human traffickers, making the act of sex trafficking … [Read more...]
How God used a loving wife to bring me to The Pathway
Anniversaries for two significant events in my life are occurring this summer. One is among the happiest of my life. The other among the saddest. Both intertwined. June 8 is the happy one, marking my 15th anniversary as The Pathway’s editor. July 26 will mark the day my sweet, late wife, Bernadette, succumbed to brain cancer. Even though she no longer is with me, loving me and supporting the ministry God had called us to attend here, her impact on The Pathway ministry – and my life – … [Read more...]
MONA threatens religious freedom in Missouri
MONA is an acronym for the cruelly misleading Missouri Nondiscrimination Act. MONA represents a menacing domestic threat to religious freedom. If it passes it could serve as a mechanism for LGBT people to claim discrimination in a variety of ways, triggering lawsuits against religious organizations and people of faith who want to run their businesses according to the dictates of their faith. Think about a baker who refuses to bake a wedding cake for same-sex couples, a photographer who … [Read more...]
The terrorizing torment of child abuse, neglect
From 2012 to 2014, Isidro Cruz-Basurto sodomized and molested a seven-year-old girl. When questioned by authorities, he said he was conducting private medical exams in his bedroom to test if anyone else was abusing the victim. A Jackson County jury rejected his explanation and on April 19 found Cruz-Basurto, 33, of Kansas City guilty of four counts of statutory sodomy in the first degree and two counts of child molestation in the first degree. Cruz-Basurto, who is an illegal alien, faces … [Read more...]
The truth about Truth and Mammy Hink’s snakes
One summer day in 1964, I was piddling on Mammy Hink’s porch as dad mowed her lawn (Mammy Hink is what us grandkids called Grandma Hinkle). I had just guzzled a cool drink of water from the gourde Mammy Hink kept hanging on the porch. Suddenly dad’s mower choked to silence, running into some knee-high fescue – or so I thought. When dad over-turned the mower to free the blade, he was startled to discover a slimy, fat four-foot chicken snake. It had been whirled in an unescapable vortex … [Read more...]
Cornucopia: Sex trafficking, free speech, the Gov & Israel
Do not be surprised if Missouri Attorney General Joshua Hawley soon launches a new offensive combating the state’s growing human/sex trafficking crime. Action could come from any number of options, ranging from stepped-up enforcement to raising public awareness. Such an initiative is overdue. Determining the extent of human/sex trafficking in Missouri is difficult because of its shadowy nature. News reports herald an alarming rise in reports of human/sex trafficking in Kansas City, St. … [Read more...]
Facing the ‘quiet devastation’ of loneliness
“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” – Mother Teresa Loneliness is horrible. It has been called the “quiet devastation.” Novelist Emily Dickinson described it as “the Horror not to be surveyed.” Albert Schweitzer said, “We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.” Loneliness persists in our society. An estimated 20 percent of Americans – 60 million – feel lonely, according to John T. Cacioppo, author of Loneliness: Human Nature … [Read more...]
God has final say on gender identity
Never in a million years did Missourians ever think they would have to let children share a bathroom or locker room shower with an adult of the biologically opposite sex. If LGBT advocates, fake news organizations and their liberal/progressive friends get their way that is precisely what will happen. The question remains, what are Missourians going to do about it? Enter Christian and homeschool mother Lisa Pannett of St. Louis. Known as one of the state’s most fearless citizen lobbyists, … [Read more...]
Random ruminations from a traveling editor
A Missouri Senate bill that guarantees privacy for children and women while protecting them from possible perverts has been introduced by Sen. Ed Emery, R-Lamar. “All school restrooms, locker rooms and shower rooms accessible for use by multiple students shall be designated for and used by male or female students only,” the bill states. It also provides transgendered students with access to single stall restrooms, unisex restrooms or controlled use of faculty restrooms, locker rooms or … [Read more...]
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