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Now Beth Moore is taking on patriarchy in the church

Just a month after making headlines by announcing her departure from the Southern Baptist Convention, popular author and Bible teacher Beth Moore launched a second salvo against the male-dominated leadership of the SBC. In a tweet April 7, she apologized…

When pastors change churches during a global pandemic, it takes creativity and perseverance

That call weekend in September 2020 was one Matt Marston said he will never forget — and not only because it resulted in him becoming the senior minister of First Baptist Church in Athens, Ga. “Because of all the precautions…

Angry man with bulldozer severely damages Dellanna West O’Brien School in Liberia

It wasn’t too long ago that Eddie Gibson was visiting the Dellanna West O’Brien School in Liberia, ducking in and out of classrooms, talking and laughing with the teachers and students. He remembers working hard to get some ceiling tiles…

Where is Mike Huckabee?

I knew Mike Huckabee before. Before he was governor of Arkansas. Before he was a presidential candidate. Before he was a Fox News personality. Before he was a multimillionaire. Before he was pitching racial slurs. Back then he was a…

American Christianity in China also imports gender bias and Calvinism

Imagine if America’s coalition of conspiracy theorist, cowboy Christianity had colonized its way into the world of international politics and sexual abuse cover-ups under the guise of spreading the gospel. Research scholar Mary Li Ma believes this isn’t an imaginary scenario,…

We cannot now close our border to those fleeing the horror we helped create

Why should we open our border to poor people from Central America? What if they are really terrorists? What if they have COVID, or something even more contagious? How can we afford to take care of “their” children when we…

That time I went to the school board meeting to speak against banning books

This week, I found someone who has it rougher than pastors in handling dissent generated from right-wing conspiracy theories and fear of the LGBTQ community: Public school administrators. I had no idea how bad this is, and yet I should…

Chip Gaines writes about building a network of support and not being constrained by conventional wisdom

Chip and Joanna Gaines have become household names in American reality TV and fixer-upper culture. In Chip’s new book, No Pain, No Gaines: The Good Stuff Doesn’t Come Easy, he makes it clear that the life that he and Joanna…

What I found hidden in my mother’s Bible after her death

On Easter this year, Christianity Today reposted an article written by J.I. Packer from the magazine’s April 10, 1981, issue. Packer was a complementarian and Calvinist, so there’s quite a bit on which we disagree, and this article is no…

If you want to help the poor, first understand their humanity

How American exceptionalism is killing America

In state legislatures, a push against trans teens, for churches as ‘essential’ and seeking to define ‘religious freedom’

Months after two hurricanes, vaccinated volunteers finally heading to Lake Charles