On the last Sunday of October, the Rev. Karl Anderson helped arrange a “Souls to the Polls” event on a blocked-off downtown street to encourage Alachua County, Florida, residents to do their civic duty ahead of Election Day.
Pastor Says Vandalism of Black Baptist Church is Spiritual Attack
Rev. Gordon Coleman remembers as a 12-year-old boy seeing the damage caused by racist vandals to Mount Vernon Missionary Baptist Church where his dad served as pastor in Callaway County, Missouri. Forty-six years later, Gordon is pastor of that church…
Churches return land to Indigenous groups as part of #LandBack movement
All day, the sweetwater had dripped steadily from the trunks of the maple trees into blue, plastic buckets.
In new book, Pope Francis addresses COVID-19 and politics, with an eye to the US
Just weeks after Pope Francis issued “Fratelli Tutti,” a 400-page encyclical on themes of universal love and economic injustice, he is releasing a slimmer volume, “Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future,” reflecting on the pandemic and its…
Black clergy, United Way to launch anti-coronavirus effort
Black clergy leaders are joining forces with the United Way of New York City for a new initiative designed to combat the coronavirus’ outsized toll on African Americans through ramped-up testing, contact tracing and treatment management.
Stay home, evangelical medical organization tells churches as COVID spreads
For months, the leaders of the Christian Medical and Dental Associations have urged churches to social distance, wear masks and do their part to slow the spread of COVID-19. Unfortunately, says the association of 20,000 evangelical health care professionals, those…
Pastors Launch Church-Planting Network for ‘Black and Brown Neighborhoods’
A team of pastors including Thabiti Anyabwile and John Onwuchekwa have launched a new network—The Crete Collective—to support church planters focused on black, Hispanic, and Asian American communities.
Central Seminary offers free Advent resource for congregations
A free Advent resource for congregations in this season of pandemic discernment is available thanks to a Lilly Endowment grant administered by Central Baptist Theological Seminary and Pinnacle Associates. “Preparing to Hear God’s Call” is a new downloadable Advent resource…
Cynical hostility linked to greater risk of cardiovascular disease
Heart health has something to do with attitude, according to a new Baylor University study on stress and cardiovascular disease. The most deadly attitude is “cynical hostility,” according to the study, which was published in the journal Psychophysiology. That carrying a hostile…