University of Tennessee Press to Publish “The Free Will Baptists: A New History” by Matt Pinson
Please join us in congratulating commission member President Pinson on the publication of this important work. — January 12, 2026 For Immediate Release University of Tennessee Press to Publish “The Free Will Baptists: A New History” by Matt Pinson GALLATIN, TN—The University of Tennessee Press recently announced its…
Christmas Reflections on Athanasius’s On the Incarnation
Dr. Kevin L. Hester In the mid-fourth century, Athanasius, the Bishop of Alexandria, composed an apologetic treatise against Arianism that would become one of the classic treatments of Christology. Athanasius demonstrates Christ’s full divinity and his full humanity as necessary for God’s salvific purposes in redeeming humanity. His…
What Does the Christian Tradition Say about the Ordination of Women?
Kevin Hester When discussing the ordination of women from a historical perspective there is a theological tension that must be observed. This tension is tested at various points by cultural perspectives that at different times and in different eras tend to push the discussion in different ways.…
Presbyterian Praise for Feet Washing
W. Jackson Watts I’ve always chuckled whenever I’ve heard Southern Baptist friends recoil defensively against the practice of feet washing as an ordinance. While there actually are some Southern Baptists here and there who have practiced this biblical rite, they join most other mainstream, larger Protestant denominations in…
Making Sense of Religious Liberty
Jackson Watts Recently a friend of mine at the Helwys Society Forum, a site I also contribute to, called attention to Robert Louis Wilken’s book, Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom. I had somehow overlooked this title, though I had admired Wilken’s…