Grammy-winning gospel artist Kirk Franklin says he’s boycotting the Gospel Music Association’s Dove Awards after they edited out part of his acceptance speech earlier this month in which he called for prayers after a police shooting in his hometown of…
One-year commemoration of synagogue shooting marked
The first anniversary of the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history was being marked around the world Sunday with community service projects, music and an online remembrance.
Church’s money management lessons lead to transformation in an impoverished neighborhood
Eastern Star Church, a Baptist church in Indianapolis, ministers to the one of the city’s most impoverished ZIP codes through housing initiatives, social services, a grocery store, financial coaching and more.
Jury convicts 7 Catholic pacifists of breaking into nuclear submarine base
They now face up to 25 years in prison each for breaking into a nuclear submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia, last year in an effort to symbolically disarm the base.
Karen Swallow Prior to join SEBTS faculty
After more than two decades teaching at Liberty University, Karen Swallow Prior will join the faculty of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary as full-time research professor of English and Christianity & Culture beginning fall semester of 2020. She will be the…
Letter to the Editor – Essay misrepresents Riverside Church’s decision
Essay misrepresents Riverside Church’s decision by Macieo Anderson
Female evangelical leaders have a hidden predecessor to thank
Kathryn Kuhlman’s story offers a case study of the indisputable achievements of strong evangelical women and the equally indisputable roadblocks they often face.
Black Baptist church shaped Cummings’ commitment
Cummings, the son of a sharecropper and pastors who died last Thursday at 68, was among a generation of lawmakers, civil rights leaders and social justice advocates who grew up under the influence of the African American church.
What is democratic socialism, and where is it headed?
A new generation of American voters, one that does not remember the Cold War but is steeped in the severe inequalities of neoliberal capitalism, has brushed aside the assumption that democratic socialism is impossibly un-American.