Posts from ‘July, 2007’

My previous post revealed the meaning and significance of an endorsement. To endorse literally means “to write on the back of,” and it implies the sanction or approval of all that is contained within the thing endorsed, protestations to the contrary notwithstanding.
I thought this picture was needed, just to remind everyone that the official SBC [...]

Recently, I felt compelled to do a little bit of research on the origin and meaning of the word “endorse.” The title of this post is the Anglo-French word from which the English word is derived, and it apparently has as its most literal meaning “to write on the back of.”
This makes sense when one [...]

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In doing some research for a study this afternoon, I ran across an article written sometime between 1920 and 1925. It was titled “The Baptist Denomination is not a Free Lance Club,” though I suspect that headline was written when Baptist Press published the article in 2002.
It was written by Edgar Young Mullins, fourth president [...]

My friend Robin Foster recently posted a quote taken from an entry by Wade Burleson in a discussion forum. In this quote, Wade Burleson suggests that a parallel exists between the anger directed toward him by a fellow IMB trustee and the anger displayed by those involved in cults or dysfunctional families toward the one [...]

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It’s amazing what people can do with a watermelon. The pictures above are real, including those odd-looking square melons. They’re grown in Japan by farmers who place the growing melons into a tempered glass container, causing them to assume that square shape as they grow. It is done for a very practical reason: space. The [...]

This photo was taken in Richmond, Virginia, in 1865. When it became clear to Gen. Robert E. Lee that he could no longer keep the Confederate capitol from being overrun by the Union Army, the the government abandoned the city on Sunday, April 2, 1865. In an almost comical scene, some 54 city blocks were [...]