Late last week, Outfront Media took down a couple of billboards it owns in Dallas. Normally that wouldn’t be news, but the ads on these billboards belonged to First Baptist Church of Dallas and depict its pastor, Robert Jeffress, so…
Sessions distorts Romans 13:1 to say civil laws are God’s will
According to this absolutist view, to resist the civil authorities is to oppose God. God, it is argued, appointed government both to punish wrongdoers and promote good.
Blessed assurance: Call to the table in the face of terror
Something else needs to be said about the savagery of separating children from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border: this policy change is in fact a form of terrorism.
Southern Baptists Call Off the Culture War
America’s largest Protestant group moves to cut ties with the Republican Party and re-engage with mainstream culture.
Sexual Purity, #ChurchToo, and the Crisis of Male Evangelical Leadership
The work of #ChurchToo cannot be undertaken within evangelical churches without first re-assessing, if not dismantling, the stringent purity culture which remains a prominent feature of youth ministries.
Baptist mendacity about missions this week in Dallas
There will be singing, preaching, praying, and hand holding at SBC and CBF meetings. Meanwhile, victims of sacralized bigotry and discrimination will be ignored, patronized, blamed and otherwise trivialized.
Harvest America brings thousands of Christians to AT&T Stadium for fellowship in faith
Many participants are expected to stay in Dallas for the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting this week, attending panels on the church as the convention elects a new president. The Southern Baptist gathering has drawn added attention this year, with…
Baptists break bread with Turkish Muslims, forging new friendships at Dallas church
At Thursday night’s Iftar dinner, hosted by the church and the Dialogue Institute of Dallas, families from Muslim and Baptist communities mingled at Wilshire Baptist Church.
#MeToo goes to church: Southern Baptists face a reckoning over treatment of women
“Many women have experienced horrific abuses within the power structures of our Christian world,” Beth Moore, an evangelical teacher, wrote in a letter.