Bart Barber @Bartbarber Bart Barber has served FBC Farmersville since 1999. He is married to Tracy (Brady) Barber. Together they have two children. Bart is a native of Lake City, Ark., where his parents had him in church before he was born. God saved him at the tender age of almost-six, called him to preach when he was eleven, allowed him to preach his first sermon (such as it was) when he was fifteen, and permitted him to serve as a pastor of a church when he was a senior in high school. Bart has a B.A. from Baylor University in their University Scholars program, an M.Div. from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and a Ph.D. in Church History also from Southwestern. For his dissertation he wrote about a denominational split among Arkansas Baptists in 1902, suggesting that they all should've gotten along with one another. Bart Barber's Resources Abortion Article 3 ways churches can respond to the Whole Woman's Health ruling by Bart Barber Yesterday the United States Supreme Court has ruled in the case Whole Woman’s Health vs Hellerstedt, and the implications go far beyond the fact that Texas is denied the right to make certain that surgical abortions are as safe as... Continue... Religious Liberty Article If Governor Nathan Deal were a real Baptist by Bart Barber Ladies and Gentlemen, the Governor of the State of Georgia. Good morning. The decision surrounding HB 757 has generated more intense feelings than most legislation, perhaps because it has highlighted the concerns of many in our religious communities regarding the... Continue... Religious Liberty Article The Constitution Anticipates Today by Bart Barber The year 2015 presented a number of turning points in the ongoing journey of American religious liberty, which means that the year 2015 presented me with numerous opportunities to advocate in writing for universal religious liberty and a robust application... Continue... Religious Liberty Article The Way that Religious Liberty Ends by Bart Barber Walk down any street in America today and you can find a person who doesn’t own a Bible, has never attended a church, doesn’t pray, and has never enrolled in even an undergraduate course in religion, but who feels no... Continue... Culture Article 4 Ways Christians can respond to a Satanic statue by Bart Barber Time Magazine (and everyone else) reports that the Satanic Temple in Detroit has unveiled a bronze statue of Baphomet, “the totem of contemporary Satanism.” How ought American Christians respond to this? 1. We are not in a monuments-and-statues race. God... Continue... Religious Liberty Article 4 Things Christians Say When They Deny Religious Liberty to Others by Bart Barber A controversy is brewing over the proposed construction of a muslim cemetery, mosque and training center in my town of Farmersville, Texas. Many local residents have expressed opposition to the project and have called upon our city government to block... Continue... Culture Article Obergefell v. Hodges: Fear Not by Bart Barber “Fear not.” If that phrase is good enough to open angelic messages, my little essay probably deserves no better. Jesus used it to preface prophecies about the end of the world; I doubt that today’s circumstances call for excessive dourness.... Continue... Religious Liberty Article Point/Counterpoint: Signing civil marriage licenses by Bart Barber Peter Leithart Bart Barber: Protecting families by signing civil marriage licenses If changes in American marriage law make American churches rethink their practices surrounding weddings in order to make them more distinctively Christian, that will be a good thing. Those reforms, however,... Continue... Human Dignity Article The Twin Revolutions by Bart Barber The 1950s and 1960s marked the beginning of sweeping societal upheaval in the United States. The most sensational headlines have always gone to sex (the sexual revolution), drugs (the pharmacological revolution), and rock and roll (the musical revolution), but alongside... Continue... Religious Liberty Article Two Realizations that Empower Religious Liberty by Bart Barber In America religious liberty came into existence when the Church and the State came to two important, indispensable conclusions. These principles are worth our time to remember because of the precarious position in which religious liberties find themselves in the United... Continue... « 1 2 »