• Letter: Saddleback Church ordains three women, draws criticism

  05/17/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to an article by Bob Smietana of Religion News Service about Saddleback Church’s ordination of women.

• Letters: Editorial: For Christians, public policy is about love of neighbor

  05/04/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Baptist Standard readers respond to Editor Eric Black’s contention that public policy can be an expression of love of neighbor.

• Letter: Baptist leaders react to Chauvin guilty verdict

  04/27/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader challenges Baptist leaders also to pray for Derek Chauvin and his family as they pray for George Floyd’s family.

• Letter: New doubts over Southern Baptists’ limits on women’s roles

  03/29/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to a recent report about responses among Southern Baptist women to the SBC’s doctrine about women.

• Letter: Baylor reckons with painful information about founders

  03/22/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to Baylor University’s examination of its founders’ views on race, citing similar news for the Churches of Christ.

• Letters: Beth Moore: Southern Baptist no more

  03/15/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Baptist Standard readers respond to Beth Moore’s announcement she is “no longer Southern Baptist,” though still Baptist.

• Letter: Voices: Serious problems revealed by the ERLC Task Force report

  02/25/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to Jamey L. Yadon’s take on the ERLC Task Force report alleging serious problems with the SBC agency.

• Letter: Major effort needed to rebuild refugee resettlement system

  02/10/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  Lester Meriwether responds to a news article about refugee resettlement by urging churches to continue their ministries with refugees.

• Letter: Editorial: A question to focus us on what matters most: “So, what?”

  01/29/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to a recent editorial by Editor Eric Black with what he believes matters most.

• Re: Letter: Voices: A warning from a friend. Return to your first love

  01/19/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to another reader’s response to Rev. Joseph Fields’ exhortation to white evangelicals.

• Letter: Voices: A warning from a friend: Return to your first love

  01/15/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to Rev. Joseph Fields caution to the white evangelical church about its relationship with political power.

• Letter: Voices: Resist Christian nationalism displayed during assault on U.S. Capitol

  01/08/2021 - By Staff / Baptist Standard

  A Baptist Standard reader responds to a headline and the group it describes assaulting the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.