Truett Seminary at Baylor University has created another alliance with a conservative branch of Mainline Protestantism — an Anglican Episcopal House of Studies. The new house within the Baptist seminary was announced Oct. 13 and follows four years after opening…
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New president not installed at Northern Seminary
This is a developing story and will be updated as new information becomes available. Less than a year after being named president of Northern Seminary, Joy Moore apparently is out. Moore was to be formally installed as president of…
Greear’s Everyday Revolutionary calls Christians beyond culture war
Half a century ago, evangelicals were known for evangelism, not politics, but 52-year-old J.D. Greear never knew that world. He grew during the era of Jerry Falwell, not Billy Graham, and was on his way to a career in politics…
Jim Jordan says ICE agents are ‘doing the Lord’s work’
ICE agents who are violently rounding up children from playgrounds and parents from city streets are “doing the Lord’s work,” according to U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, Republican from Ohio. His comments came three weeks after White House staffer Stephen Miller,…
Trump plans to slash refugee admissions and only let in whites
President Donald Trump is expected to cut refugee admissions into the United States to 7,500 next year — a new low for the U.S. and half the previous record-setting low cap set during his first presidency. The administration also is…
Chicago pastor sues Trump after ICE assaults him while praying
A Presbyterian minister attacked by ICE agents during the peaceful protest of a Chicago-area migrant processing center has joined a lawsuit to stop the Trump administration’s violence against demonstrators and media. David Black, senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of…
Memoir reveals heart, theology of French pastor who saved Jews
He’s been called a hero for standing up to the Nazis as they unleashed Hitler’s Final Solution to kill Europe’s Jews. But André Trocmé saw himself as a devoted follower of Jesus and Protestant pastor in a small French village…
Franklin Graham quits accountability group his father founded
Franklin Graham has quit a financial accountability group his father helped found. The son of the famed evangelist has pulled both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse from membership in the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability. That group…
Entire Fifth Circuit will rehear Louisiana Ten Commandments case
A federal appeals court has tossed out its previous ruling that Louisiana’s Ten Commandments law is “plainly unconstitutional” and announced all 17 of its judges will now reconsider the case. The Fifth Circuit U.S. District Court of Appeals in New…
Trump boasts of ‘Top 100 Victories for People of Faith’
President Donald Trump recently celebrated his role as “the most pro-faith and pro-religious liberty president in American history” by issuing a little-noticed list of his “Top 100 Victories for People of Faith,” many of them gifts to the evangelicals who…
SBC Cooperative Program giving declines yet again
Giving to the Southern Baptist Convention’s Cooperative Program unified budget has declined in seven of the past 10 years, with receipts for the year just ended being 4.4% less than a decade ago. The SBC Executive Committee released final fiscal…