by Keith Bassham
Pardon us as the Tribune departs a little from its mission this month. We generally talk about the Fellowship with little self-awareness, but this month we’re talking up the Tribune. The feature articles show where the Tribune fits in the world of Baptist publishing, gives a brief rundown of the Tribune history itself, and we wrap up the section with a biography of founding editor Noel Smith. [click to continue…]
by Keith Bassham
I came to faith in Jesus Christ in my teens. I had little to no background in religion, and everything associated with serious Christianity and Baptists was new to me. At about the same time, I was just beginning to have an interest in journalism. [click to continue…]
(adapted from an article written and published by Tom Harper in the January 2000 issue of the Tribune)
The Baptist Bible Fellowship began with no written plan or formal structure. As evidenced by Noel Smith’s quote at the Texas Hotel (his words form the title of this article), this was a spontaneous movement of Baptists ready to get to work now and iron out the details later. But few would have known much about the new Fellowship if not for Noel Smith and the Baptist Bible Tribune. [click to continue…]
Founder of the Baptist Bible Tribune
by Keith Bassham
The definitive biography for Noel Smith is contained in the now out-of-print book, The Best of Noel Smith, by Mrs. Norma Gillming. A shorter version of that biography is available online in the Classics section of the Tribune website and on the website hosted by Pastor Billy Hamm, www.noelsmith.org. For this article, I will be quoting extensively from Mrs. Gillming’s invaluable work. As a close personal friend of Mr. Smith, and in her teacher’s role at Baptist Bible College, she saw things up close. [click to continue…]
by Keith Bassham
The Tribune is the magazine of the Baptist Bible Fellowship, but we serve several different constituencies, and the magazine comes to the reader in several different ways. [click to continue…]
