An East Tennessee church’s rebuff from the state’s Southern Baptist leadership for hiring a woman pastor resonates in Memphis, where Nancy Hastings Sehested’s leadership of Prescott Memorial Baptist Church in the 1980s caused similar turmoil.
Alabama state official defends Roy Moore, citing Joseph and Mary: ‘They became parents of Jesus’
“Bringing Joseph and Mary into a modern-day molestation accusation, where a 32-year-old prosecutor is accused of molesting a 14-year-old girl, is simultaneously ridiculous and blasphemous,” said Wheaton College professor Ed Stetzer.
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Cultural diversity is part of the great redemptive purpose of God
Given the current mood in the country and the moral and ethical dilemmas the nation faces, how is the church to respond? Baptist pastor Wendell Griffen offers leadership on how to deal with the challenges and opportunities of being people of prophetic hope in a divisive time.
Mother Emanuel AME pastor shows solidarity with Sutherland Springs
In the wake of the shooting massacre at a Texas church, the Rev. Eric S.C. Manning has visited members of his own congregation — Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church — to see how they are coping with rekindled memories…
Texas church to be demolished, like other mass killing sites before it
One thing is already clear in this tiny Texas town of 600 a couple days after one of the worst mass shootings at an American church: First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs will be razed.
Packing in the pews: The connection between God and guns
Ministry leaders are more likely than evangelicals overall to favor more gun control, research suggests.
Texas law requires unborn child of shooting victim be counted
This and other laws that grant full rights to the unborn form some of the newest terrain in U.S. law and are highly controversial, frequently dividing abortion rights and anti-abortion activists.
Are Christians supposed to be communists?
If the communism of the apostolic church is a secret, it is a startlingly open one. Vaguer terms like “communalist” or “communitarian” might make the facts sound more palatable but cannot change them.
After shooting in Southern Baptist church, denomination stays away from gun control stance
The head the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm says there’s no gun control policy outlined in the Bible. So the SBC isn’t taking a position, even after 26 members of an SBC church were murdered in their own sanctuary.