The Carl Goodson Honors Program has named Taylor Bascue the 2017 Garrett Ham Scholar. Read the full article here. About the Garrett Ham Scholarship I established the Garrett Ham Scholarship in 2008. I was in law school at the time, having graduated Ouachita the year before. When I went through the Honors Program, I was the […]
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At its annual awards reception, the Carl Goodson Honors Program at Ouachita Baptist University named Libby Hilliard the 2016 Garrett Ham Scholar. Read the full article here. About the Garrett Ham Scholarship I established the Garrett Ham Scholarship in 2008 while I was in law school at the University of Arkansas because I wanted to encourage […]
In previous posts, I discussed the basics of nonprofit organizations and founding a nonprofit. In this post, I will discuss making changes to a nonprofit organization, specifically modifying its purpose or terms and winding it up. Modifying a Charitable Trust Through Cy Pres Cy pres is a doctrine whereby a court changes the terms of […]
In a previous post, I provided a very broad overview of nonprofit organizations. In this post, I will expand on the basic rules I previously described. In particular, I will began discussing the process and considerations that go into founding a nonprofit organization. Choice of Legal Forms When Founding a Nonprofit One of the first decisions that […]
In previous posts, I have written about various business organizations and factors to consider when picking a business form. Now, however, I would like to discuss a different type of organization entirely: nonprofit organizations. Whether charities, fraternal organizations, political action groups, or sports leagues, nonprofit organizations come in many forms and serve a variety of […]
In his gripping book, Is God To Blame?: Moving Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering, Greg Boyd tackles one of the most enduring philosophical objections to the Christian faith: If God is all loving and all powerful, why is there so much suffering in the world? In formulating his own answer to the […]
Does purgatory have a place within an evangelical understanding of salvation? For better or worse, personal salvation occupies a central role in the modern understanding of the Christian faith, particularly within evangelicalism. For a variety of reasons, over the last two thousand years the central emphasis of the gospel has shifted from a message about […]
What follows is an excerpt from my book The Husband of One Wife. Pastors and Deacons Must Be Faithful to Their Wives Therefore, the fourth interpretation, which understands this phrase to be a prohibition of “all violations of marital and sexual fidelity,” comes closest to the truth.[1] In light of the ubiquity of male infidelity at the […]
What follows is an excerpt from my book The Husband of One Wife. KEY PASSAGES Now a bishop must be above reproach, married only once, temperate, sensible, respectable, hospitable, an apt teacher…Let deacons be married only once, and let them manage their children and their households well… (1 Tim 3:2, 12) [An elder must be] […]
May 2017