School vouchers may not be explicitly on the ballot this fall, but gubernatorial elections in at least six states could influence the future of private school choice, education savings accounts and the use of public dollars for private education. The...
On Sunday afternoon, I was in Dallas preparing for our FaithWorks board meeting. I had just left Royal Lane Baptist Church and a screening of Jesus Was a Migrant, a film featuring our work, when I saw a notification of…
An alliance of faith, labor and civil rights is needed to address the interlocking challenges of racism, xenophobia, militarism and authoritarianism currently looming over American democracy, said Willie Francois III, second vice president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention. “There…
Changes made to the governing documents of Highland Park United Methodist Church in 2022 were to “ensure that if the church maintained its ecclesiastical connection with the UMC, it was legally insulated from the ecclesiastical and doctrinal strife within UMC,”…
Days before Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s planned visit to Washington, D.C., former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback told a gathering of religious freedom advocates the Chinese government is “at war with faith.” Brownback said the Sept. 16…
The Founding Fathers have returned from the dead to speak once again, thanks to AI-generated videos, and their views on current events seem to align with the views of their creators. A video posted by President Donald Trump shows George…
America knows the photograph: Nine courageous teenagers walked into Little Rock Central High School while an angry white segregationist resistance made Arkansas the center of an international civil rights crisis. America knows Daisy Bates. We know Gov. Orval Fabaus. We…
An unseasonably humid, gray Thursday morning on Chicago’s South Side was the setting for a unique gathering of faithful souls, and one deceptively simple proposition: Religious liberty is not what its name suggests if it applies only to the familiar,…
School vouchers may not be explicitly on the ballot this fall, but gubernatorial elections in at least six states could influence the future of private school choice, education savings accounts and the use of public dollars for private education. The…
The Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee will reduce its own budget by $660,000 as part of a mandate to increase cooperative funding for the International Mission Board by 1%. The commitment to make the IMB’s portion of the SBC Cooperative…
Political commentator Aaron Parnas has published an article linking Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to Paul Pressler. Pressler, a Texas appeals court judge and Republican activist, was co-architect of the “conservative resurgence” in the Southern Baptist Convention. Parnas, who has…
Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…
Religion cannot be separated from the story of white Christian nationalism and white supremacy in America, said participants in a Sept. 19 panel discussion at Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. The panel was convened to respond to an…
