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Transitions for the week of 1-10-20
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Oh no you didn’t: Ministers struggle with people behaving badly at funerals
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Baptist school defends expelling a student over a rainbow cake
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Transitions for the week of 1-17-20
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Ministry jobs and more
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Franklin College fires president after his arrest on sex charges
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Ruh-Roh: Study says dog owners more faithful churchgoers than cat owners
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Lawsuits in Arkansas, Virginia, test SBC’s local-church-autonomy defense for sexual abuse
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Anti-Trump Republicans target evangelicals in ad blasting the ‘MAGA Church’
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Small, one-pastor church lives into big vision with Koinonia Farm, Jimmy Carter and wider progressive movement
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Transitions for the week of 1-10-20
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Transitions for the week of 1-3-20
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BNG’s Top 25 of the decade
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In Memoriam: 12 newsmakers lost in 2019
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Abuse survivors cry foul over ERLC’s end-of-year fund-raising appeal
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Pastors feel the pain as churches hit ‘another low point’ in American culture
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Baptist professor claims he was fired for being too anti-gay
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Five tips from the dead about living life in the new year
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Naked and ashamed: American Christianity’s purity culture and embodiment in the Church
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Year in Review for thoughtful Christians: Part 1 (January – June)
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The Christianity Today editorial: exposing the American evangelical dilemma
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Pastors as entrepreneurial business leaders: Time to put the brakes on this trending expectation?
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Should Christians kill animals for sport?
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Trump administration updates public school prayer guidance on National Religious Freedom Day
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Who is an evangelical? An interview with Thomas Kidd
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Trump says ‘tough guy’ President Lyndon B. Johnson might be in hell, too
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Many churchgoers in U.S. don’t know the political leanings of their clergy
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Most pastors say Middle East politics won’t speed up the Second Coming
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Outrage after Jeopardy! host rules Bethlehem not in Palestine
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Amid abuse scandals, legal challenges test clergy reporting exemptions
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Vatican tamps down clamor over Benedict’s new celibacy book
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Donald Trump Jr. poses with rifle decorated with a cross used during the Crusades
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United Methodist Church announces proposal to split over gay marriage
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White evangelicals distinct on LGBTQ rights, abortion
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