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CBF’s new disaster response coordinator brings diversity of experiences to the job

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s new domestic disaster response manager sees a direct correlation between helping communities recover from catastrophes and helping society recover from systemic injustice. Both missions require clergy, church leaders and congregations to build relationships that transform strangers…

Reflecting on a Baylor commencement 60 years later

“Oh, what a beautiful morning.” Those words obviously were made famous in the song by that title in the Broadway Musical Oklahoma!, which is my home state. I gladly loaned them to Texas on the morning of May 6 and…

Why the use of masculine God language matters at church

Throughout the English Bible, the normal pronouns assigned to God are “he” and “him.” Many references to God within church practice typically fit into this same assignment. However, when we look at the instances in the Bible where imagery for…

Fox News anchor gives voice to 16 women in the Bible

Fox News anchor Shannon Bream’s favorite portion of her book about women in the Bible is retelling the story of the “unclean” woman found in Mark 5:21. “We’re told that she comes before (Jesus) trembling and in fear falls down…

Ethics at the end of life: How medicine and technology have changed the context of dying

As the school year ends and I try to process the many agonies of the annus horribilus COVID year of 2020-21, I will remember many deaths, but most especially the death of my father in late December 2020. These posts,…

Largest church in SBC ordains three women as pastors

The largest church affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention ordained three women as ministers May 6, sending shock waves through the male-centric leadership of the nation’s largest non-Catholic denomination. Saddleback Church, founded by Pastor Rick Warren and his wife, Kay,…

Bush calls for religious revival to help all Christians welcome immigrants

Healing the divisiveness of immigration in American politics and society requires a view of immigrants as vital cultural and economic contributors and as fellow human beings made in God’s image, former President George W. Bush said during a May 6…

Let’s not forget about single mothers

When I think of the many sounds that came out of my house growing up in Orlando, Fla., I hear my mother yelling at the top of her lungs every morning in praying over my sister and me. In fact,…

Charity versus justice

On social capital, churches often do one part well and one part not well

How second-chance hiring works for business

With vaccinations on board, CBF disaster relief looks toward unfinished work in Bahamas

CBF’s new disaster response coordinator brings diversity of experiences to the job

Reflecting on a Baylor commencement 60 years later

Why the use of masculine God language matters at church

Fox News anchor gives voice to 16 women in the Bible

Ethics at the end of life: How medicine and technology have changed the context of dying

Largest church in SBC ordains three women as pastors

Bush calls for religious revival to help all Christians welcome immigrants

Let’s not forget about single mothers

Pope Francis invites faithful to monthlong rosary marathon for end of pandemic

Moral Values Mold Public’s View of Journalism

Fetal “heartbeat” bill, which could ban abortions at six weeks, nears passage in the Legislature

United Methodist pastor’s podcast ‘Cross Over Q’ challenges QAnon, comforts its victims

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Charity versus justice

On social capital, churches often do one part well and one part not well

How second-chance hiring works for business

With vaccinations on board, CBF disaster relief looks toward unfinished work in Bahamas

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