Welcome!

Welcome to Weighty Matters, the blog of the TBMaston Foundation. Or, as I like to call it, a "blog-a-logue," because it's intended to promote serious dialogue on current ethical issues.

For over 30 years, the TBMaston Foundation has worked to carry out its mission, as stated on our Web site, to "promote the legacy of Dr. T. B. Maston, a lifelong advocate for the deeper understanding and wider application of the life and ethical teaching of Jesus Christ." To learn more about Dr. Maston and the Foundation, please go to our Web site.

Last week, we published the first issue of the Foundation's e-newsletter. If you are not yet receiving it, you can subscribe from the home page of our Web site or by clicking here.

We anticipate a vigorous dialogue on Weighty Matters, discussing the issues of the day and how applied biblical Christian ethics can shed light on them. Some of our authors actually studied under Dr. Maston, who taught Christian Ethics at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary for over 40 years, retiring in 1965. Other authors knew him well or have studied his writings. Several serve on the Foundation's Board of Trustees.

I will be moderating the blog and occasionally posing questions for our authors - and our readers - to discuss.

Throughout their lives, Dr. Maston and his wife, Essie Mae McDonald Maston, lived out the ethics that he taught - ethics that profoundly reflected the presence of the living Christ in their lives. Dr. Maston prophetically challenged Baptists - actually, all Christians, for that matter - to live out the ethics that Christ lived and taught. His stand against segregation and racial inequality, for example, at a time that lynchings were still common in some parts of our country, brought him hate mail by the bushel. But he faithfully and courageously stood fast in the face of the threats that came his way.

The TBMaston Foundation exists to promote Dr. Maston's legacy and to honor Jesus Christ. One of Dr. Maston's favorite verses of Scripture, which is quoted on the masthead of the Foundation's Web site, says it all: "Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did" (1 John 2:6).

We welcome you to join the conversation. As you read the posts on this blog, please join us by posting comments that further a vigorous dialogue on these issues.