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Transitions for the week of 8-3-18

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Vincent William Dent Sr., to American Baptist Home Mission Societies, Valley Forge, Pa., as chief development officer. Brock…

Southern Baptist mission board reports data breach

A data breach at the Southern Baptist Convention International Mission Board may have unlocked personal information about thousands of current and former employees, volunteers and applicants.

Is our white Christian majority straining out gnats and swallowing camels?

It seems like the “gnats” we strain out are things that irk white Christian majorities, but the “camels” we leave in place are large-scale injustices or suffering among minority races, religions and sexualities. Maybe we should leave the gnats alone, if that’s what it takes to get our eyes focused on the “weightier matters.”

At Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump support is part of a 150-year tradition

First Baptist Church of Dallas didn’t just get political. It’s been that way for a long time.

How partisanship drives religious attitudes

A new book by University of Pennsylvania political scientist Michele Margolis challenges conventional wisdom linking people’s political choices with their childhood faith.

What I learned from my 8th-grade teacher in Mississippi in 1975

My junior high school reflected Mississippi’s poverty, racism and provincialism. Good teachers like Danny McBrayer fought uphill battles.

Congress could declaw restrictions on politicking from the pulpit — over the objections of many churches

Deactivating the tax provision known as the Johnson Amendment could increase the flow of dark money, reducing accountability in campaign finance.

‘Nobody in their right mind’ would do what this peace activist has done

The Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America has grown a lot since its founding in 1984. Its focus over the years has expanded from poverty and nuclear proliferation to racial justice, gun violence and immigration, among other issues. And a…

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JUSTSEX plenary speaker will draw on long career focused on sexuality, sex education

“We don’t talk a lot about sex. There’s a lot of secretiveness. I hope that the JUSTSEX conference will get people more comfortable talking about sexuality issues and (help them) come up with good problem-solving skills.”

Evangelicals’ embrace of Donald Trump may cost them the future

Religious right leaders are driving people out of the pews with their hypocritical defenses of Donald Trump.

Jane Roe case against Patterson dropped before trial

Republican leaders worried ICE murders will damage their agenda

When the president targets Muslim kindergartners, families like mine also pay the price

Trans protections targeted after Supreme Court ruling

Transitions for the week of 8-3-18

Southern Baptist mission board reports data breach

Is our white Christian majority straining out gnats and swallowing camels?

At Jeffress’ First Baptist Church of Dallas, Trump support is part of a 150-year tradition

How partisanship drives religious attitudes

What I learned from my 8th-grade teacher in Mississippi in 1975

Congress could declaw restrictions on politicking from the pulpit — over the objections of many churches

‘Nobody in their right mind’ would do what this peace activist has done

Ministry jobs and more

Evangelicals’ embrace of Donald Trump may cost them the future

Attacks on human dignity can never be normalized, say 2 US bishops after deadly ICE shootings

How Andy Burnham’s religious roots shaped Britain’s first Catholic-born prime minister

The Pro-Life Movement’s Widening Division

How Michigan’s Senate race is testing pro-Israel Jews’ loyalty to the Democratic Party

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Jane Roe case against Patterson dropped before trial

Republican leaders worried ICE murders will damage their agenda

When the president targets Muslim kindergartners, families like mine also pay the price

Trans protections targeted after Supreme Court ruling

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