With Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter well into its second week at the top of the Billboard charts, the internet is rife with as many hot takes and opinions as 4×4 pickups at a Jason Aldean show. Absorbing the litany of influences,…
Stained glass Black Jesus moves to Memphis
When architects Hadley and Peter Arnold rescued a condemned church in Warren, R.I., they knew the 19th century building was something special. But just how special wasn’t clear until it was time to remodel the church’s windows. Behind one of…
Derek Webb finds new life in uncertainty
Thirty-two years ago, when Derek Webb emerged on the national scene with the contemporary Christian music group Caedmon’s Call, he could not have imagined how much his life would veer into uncharted territory. That’s not because of fame but because…
Ryan Burge explains ‘casual dechurching’
The majority of Americans leaving the church do so for rather humdrum reasons, sociologist of religion Ryan Burge said during a recent episode of the “CBF Podcast.” This phenomenon is known as “casual dechurching” and is typically overlooked because it’s…
The Freedom Caucus, source of conflict in Congress, has evangelical support
Six months after Hamas attacked Israel, the GOP-led U.S. House of Representatives has so far failed to agree on a bill addressing aid for Israel. Ukraine aid also is blocked. But on Tuesday, the House sent articles of impeachment against…
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Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…
Experts detail how famine and disease are taking a second toll on Gaza
Global hunger experts are alarmed by the severity of famine conditions already present in the Gaza Strip and by how rapidly starvation is spreading through the population of the war-torn Palestinian territory. “Uniquely distressing about the Gaza situation is the…
Americans are not equally divided on culture wars, Robert Jones explains in BNG webinar
The popular view that the United States is split in half on cultural, religious and political values is a fallacy propagated by the evangelical-controlled Republican Party, according to Robert P. Jones, president of Public Religion Research Institute. “Two-thirds of the…
Another court blocks DeSantis’ ‘anti-woke’ agenda as unconstitutional
In another setback for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ aggressive anti-LGBTQ agenda, a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction allowing a transgender public school teacher to use her preferred title and pronouns while on the job. “Once again, the State of…
Former Southern Baptist pastor, an election denier, leads FRC Action’s ‘election integrity’ effort
Jody Hice, a former Southern Baptist pastor and former U.S. representative from Georgia who sought to overturn the 2020 election results, is the public face of a new campaign promoting “election integrity.” “There is perhaps no greater endeavor that is…
Rwanda: 30 years after the genocide
Thirty years ago this month, hell’s gate flung open in the land of a thousand hills, leading to the loss of 1 million lives in Rwanda. That poetic language by one analyst describes the most barbaric genocide the world has…
McCammon and Emerson headline Friends of BNG dinner
Sarah McCammon and Michael Emerson will headline this year’s Friends of Baptist News Global dinner during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Greensboro, N.C., June 20. McCammon, author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, is…