For 23 years, Highland Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky, has held a service on the second Sunday of Advent with a cross on its lawn for each person killed that year by homicide in the community. This year saw more…
BJC warns against politicizing religious beliefs, sermons of candidates: ‘No religious test means no religious test’
In a Facebook live conversation, BJC Executive Director Amanda Tyler and Director of Education Charles Watson Jr. discussed the unique religious liberty concerns that can arise when a minister is a candidate for public office.
Do you see what I see? Planetary alignment to create a ‘Christmas star’
A star, a star will dance in the night on Dec. 21.
Jehovah’s Witnesses shift away from knocking amid pandemic
For Jessica Iwajomo, the joy she finds in her faith is too important, too good to keep to herself.
A unique recipe for healing: Bill Murray and a biblical text
Against the backdrop of a pandemic’s blight and wounds from an acrimonious election, a group of acclaimed actors on Sunday staged an online reading of a religious text with remarkable relevance to the current moment: the Book of Job.
Remaining BTSR assets granted to two new initiatives in Virginia
The final distribution of assets from Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond will help launch a new Center for Faith, Justice and Reconciliation and a Baptist House of Studies at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond. As previously reported, Union Presbyterian Seminary…
Southern Baptists Keep Quarreling Over Critical Race Theory
A year and a half after passing a controversial resolution on critical race theory, Southern Baptists are debating the topic again.
The COVID-19 books have arrived: From Pope Francis, John Piper, N.T. Wright and more
The United States is setting new records for reported daily hospitalizations and COVID-19 deaths.
6th Circuit finds no “hint of hostility toward religion” in Kentucky governor’s COVID-19 order halting in-person schools
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s latest COVID-19 order, which halted in-person learning in both public and private elementary and secondary schools across the state in response to the recent surge in cases, will remain in full force after a unanimous federal…