Church Architecture, Cuban Pastors, & More

The July 2017 issue of Word&Way features several pieces on church architecture, a topic often requsted. Here are the pieces I wrote for the issue:

• My editorial, Becoming Independent Baptists, on churches not engaging with denominational missions. 
• An article, CBF Leaders Stand with Ark. Judge [not online], on a rally to support Wendell Griffen (see my earlier q&a interview with him).
• An article, Amid Controversy, SBC Passes Alternative 'Al-Right' Resolution [not online], on the debate during the recent annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention.
• An article, Mo. Baptists Lead Summit in Ukraine, on a recent trip by the Future Leadership Foundation.
• An article, Supreme Court Rules for Mo. Church - But With a Footnote, on the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Trinity Lutheran of Columbia, Inc. v. Comer.
• A Q&A interview with two Cuban Baptist pastors: Josué Rodríguez Legrá, president of Convención Bautista de Cuba Oriental (Eastern Baptist Convention of Cuba) and pastor of 1ra Iglesia Bautista de Palma Soriano (1st Baptist Church of Palma Soriano). Diorlis (Joey) Hernández, pastor of Sexta Iglesia Bautista de Santiago de Cuba (Sixth Baptist Church in Santiago de Cuba). 

Other pieces in the issue include:

• A three-part cover package on church architecture: Seeking Modern Worship Spaces [not online] and Rethinking Church Buildings by Carrie Brown McWhorter, and The Call to Design Church Buildings [not online] by Cristina Earley.
• A piece about a grant to digitize the archives of Word&Way.
• A column by Christopher Dixon: Navigating Political Discussions.
• A column by Terrell Carter: The Gift of Righteous Indignation. 
• A column by Wade Paris: Steeples.
• A column by Ken Satterfield: Your Incredible Disappearing History. 
• A column by Doyle Sager: Whatever Happened to Evangelism? (Part 2)  
• And much more that can only be found in the print edition, like a a piece on ministering to grandparents who are raising their grandchildren, .

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