No new president can direct the Baylor dissonance until the board orchestrates harmony. Bringing the Baylor family back together should be Job 1, because nothing else will matter if Baylor tears itself apart.

07/31/2008 - By Marv Knox, Editor, Baptist Standard

“100% agreement not mandatory.” In fact, healthy, open, vibrant disagreement can be a blessing.

07/19/2008 - By Marv Knox, Editor, Baptist Standard

Baptists have formed friendships with people from all over the world, whose faiths are different, but whose values are similar. Could that be why relationships seem to trump Christianity’s exclusive faith claims in the recent Pew Forum's Religious Landscape Survey?

07/03/2008 - By Marv Knox, Editor, Baptist Standard

If we love people whose names fill our church rolls but who never darken our church doors and who live like hell, we will draw up the courage to “lovingly correct” them.

06/20/2008 - By Marv Knox, Editor, Baptist Standard

Texas Baptists don’t have to be missiologists to see things are amiss in our iconic missions organization. We need to pray for Texas WMU.

06/06/2008 - By Marv Knox, Editor, Baptist Standard

The wonderful thing about the impossibility of Texas Hope 2010 is that it kicks our pride in the head.

05/23/2008 - By Marv Knox, Editor, Baptist Standard

Theoretically, people should be able to express different opinions and still get along. In practice, however, cordial disagreement is the exception rather than the rule.

05/21/2008 - By Marv Kox, Editor, Baptist Standard

Ironically, Thomas Clifford McGowan Jr. became a free man the same day the U.S. Supreme Court freed states to resume executions. McGowan’s case illustrates why Texas and other states should maintain a moratorium on capital punishment.

04/28/2008 - By Marv Knox, Editor, Baptist Standard