An appeal to my white Baptist sisters and brothers: when it comes to talk about the issue of reparations, I hope you will embrace and maintain a penitent silence during the remaining days of Lent.
To love and to care for others – indeed, to be fully alive – entails suffering in all its forms. Lent is an opportunity to enter afresh into the paschal mystery.
Faith leaders say a group of bills in the Republican-controlled state legislature “promote discrimination rather than justice and demean the worth of LGBTQ people in our state.”
By themselves, entrepreneurial values in church planting are not bad, but there is a fine line between tailoring church to people’s needs and making church a commodity. In church planting this line often gets blurred.
A briefing with a small group of media outlets caused controversy after a member of the State Department press corps reportedly was invited to take part in the call and then disinvited after being told the call was limited to…
According to the Code of Jewish Law, a person is obligated to drink enough alcohol on Purim to be unable to differentiate between cursing Haman and blessing Mordechai, but Jewish leaders have become alarmed by the excessive use of alcohol…
An appeal to my white Baptist sisters and brothers: when it comes to talk about the issue of reparations, I hope you will embrace and maintain a penitent silence during the remaining days of Lent.
As a Baptist minister, I owe much to an inclusive, gracious and open-minded Methodist church in Texas that invited me as a new Baptist seminary graduate to be their associate pastor. That gives me hope, despite the General Conference’s recent vote.
You get the impression that Trump’s support in this specific demographic — his best — has dropped as evangelical leaders argue over his “divisive” views and behavior. That’s very misleading.
“Can’t recall religion being a test before for journalists,” tweets NBC’s Andrea Mitchell on the secretary of state’s exclusive talk before Mideast trip.
