Thousands of families that were broken up at the U.S-Mexico border as part of President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy found some relief with a legal settlement that grants them pathways to seek asylum and provides benefits to offset the…
Pastor and peacemaker Bob Roberts has traveled the world, and he has some thoughts on Israel and Palestine
Growing up a Baptist pastor’s kid in East Texas, Bob Roberts found himself in church a lot. That time allowed him to develop a love for the church, eventually landing him at Baylor University and then Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,…
BNG webinar will feature Greg Garrett and Anthony Reddie in dialogue about James Cone and James Baldwin
BNG’s next “Change-making Conversations” webinar will feature a dialogue with two leading scholars on the theological influences of James Cone and James Baldwin. Baylor University professor Greg Garrett, author of the new book The Gospel According to James Baldwin, will…
Should Southwest Airlines attorneys be required to attend ‘religious liberty training’ by Alliance Defending Freedom?
Everyone agrees that Charlene Carter was a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines for 20 years until she was fired in 2017 following a two-year string of harassing and bullying emails she sent to fellow workers and union leaders. Everyone disagrees…
Today is Intersex Awareness Day
October 26 is Intersex Awareness Day. In a time where gender identity and expression are under social, legal and religious scrutiny, understanding the biological basis for sex differences never has been more urgent. “Intersex” is a general term used for…
Johnson called ‘the most unabashedly Christian nationalist speaker in history’
Political columnist Sarah Posner called him “the most unabashedly Christian nationalist speaker in history.” All over social media, church-state separationists and LGBTQ right allies and voting rights advocates have warned today that the new speaker of the U.S. House of…
SBC Executive Committee members surprised to learn they filed an amicus brief against a sexual abuse survivor in Kentucky
This story was updated Friday afternoon, Oct. 27, to include a response from the SBC Executive Committee officers and Thursday night, Oct. 26, to include a response from Al Mohler. When the Louisville Courier-Journal reported yesterday that Southern Baptist…
Jim Banks, Focus on the Family’s man in the U.S. House, opposed ‘liberal’ GOP speaker candidate Tom Emmer
Three weeks after Matt Gaetz and other House Republicans supported by “pro-family” groups voted to oust Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Jim Banks, Focus on the Family’s man in the U.S. House, joined other pro-Trump conservatives to oppose Tom Emmer, the third…
Haynes is surprised to follow Jesse Jackson but believes God has prepared him
Freddy Haynes is a man on a new mission. Known to many as an influential pastor, activist and author, he’s now taken on a new role as leader of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, which was founded by Civil Rights leader…
Another ‘Christian attorney’ pleads guilty to spreading Trump’s Big Lie
One of the most prominent attorneys of conservative evangelicalism became the fourth person to plead guilty in a Georgia courtroom to wrongly aiding former President Donald Trump in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Jenna…
‘Being Baptist’ webinar celebrates ‘four fragile freedoms’
The four fragile freedoms of Baptist life can help congregations remain in unity through disagreement and difficult relationships, but it’s rarely an easy process, said Pam Durso, president of Central Baptist Theological Seminary. “This is messy and it always has…
At the Dove Awards, Section 103 marched to a different beat
As ticket holders began filing into Lipscomb University’s Allen Arena for the 54th annual GMA Dove Award ceremony last week in Nashville, a small crowd gathered by a clock tower near the entrance to the auditorium. They came from all…