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Pastor says not all Baptists support ‘bathroom bill’

A Texas Baptist pastor joined interfaith clergy in a rally outside the state Capitol Aug. 1 challenging the narrative that the faith community as a whole supports proposed legislation to require transgender people to use public bathrooms that match the…

Veteran of Southern Baptist Calvinist ‘reformation’ reflects on success

Journalist Colin Hansen’s groundbreaking 2008 book “Young, Restless, Reformed” dubbed Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., “ground zero” of the New Calvinist movement in the Southern Baptist Convention, but it was a far different place 35 years ago.

Baptist-backed ‘bathroom bill’ advances in Texas

The Texas state senate voted July 25 to advance a controversial “bathroom bill” backed by social conservative groups including the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention.

Transitions for the week of 07.28.17

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES David Cox, to Florence Baptist Church, Forest City, N.C., as minister of youth and instructional technology. Travis Crocker,…

Nation’s opioid epidemic reaches critical proportions as churches ask: ‘What can we do?’

Many experts — including national health officials, ministers and domestic missionaries, health care chaplains and law enforcement officers — describe the epidemic as among the worst on record.

Chronic pain sufferers feel forgotten in anti-opioid efforts

The focus on limiting medications prescribed for acute pain — such as that experienced after dental or medical procedures — is bleeding over into the way many doctors are treating chronic pain, too.

‘Ministerial exception’ not a shield for wrongdoing, former Baptist leader says in lawsuit

A Southern Baptist Convention entity cannot hide behind the separation of church and state to avoid liability for wrongful termination and defamation, claims the latest argument filed in a dispute in federal court.

British minister, known for unsettling evangelicals in UK, takes on doctrine of Original Sin

Steve Chalke says in a new video resource that the message that humans are inherently bad isn’t the only way to interpret the story of Adam and Eve’s disobedience in the Garden of Eden as told in Genesis 3.

In emerging partnership, retreat center aims to end social and economic isolation of inner-city children

The National Baptist Convention of America International has purchased property near Louisville, Ky., for what Simmons College of Kentucky President Kevin Cosby says will be the only retreat and conference center in the state run by African-Americans.