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Transitions for the week of 7-27-18

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Ronnie Brewer, to First Baptist Church, Aiken, S.C., as interim pastor, effective Oct. 15. Tasha Gibson, to Passport…

Pastor: ‘Protecting borders’ was also the excuse for detention of Japanese-Americans

Jennifer Ikoma-Motzko, a Japanese-American mom and Baptist minister, says an unusual weariness crept over her this summer when news broke of the forced separation of immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexican border. “As the images and stories started…

What does it mean to be pro-life?

I share the concern of conservative Christians for the unborn. Pro-life means that all life (at all developmental stages) should be honored, respected and valued. But when did the unborn become more valuable than the born, especially those born into tragic life circumstances?

Inspired by the Beatles’ love gospel, ‘submarine churches’ bucked tradition

The 1968 release of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine film influenced fashion, graphic design, music — and even a short-lived organization of “submarine churches” based on the gospel of Lennon and McCartney: “All You Need Is Love.”

Brownback opens religious freedom summit with plea to fight persecution

Some say the first-ever Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom demonstrates how the Trump administration prioritizes religious freedom. Others call it an attempt to appeal to Trump’s base of white evangelical supporters, who have long called religious liberty a priority and…

Abuse arrest turns #MeToo spotlight on SBC International Mission Board

With the ink barely dry on a Southern Baptist Convention resolution apologizing for past failures in handling abuse allegations, the SBC International Mission Board is facing charges that it recently allowed a credibly accused sexual predator to slip through the…

Communion: It’s about gratitude, welcome, hunger and koinonia

Just as Jesus takes, blesses, breaks and gives the bread to the hungry gathered in Galilee, so he does with us. He takes us, blesses us, breaks us and gives us as his continuing embodied presence. We are to be “bread for the world in mercy broken.”

Charting the succession of the ‘true church’ through history

Landmark Baptists believed that an unbroken chain of Christians kept alive the true teachings of the New Testament.

Baylor ‘set the football program on fire’ as scapegoat in sex-assault scandal, says ex-athletic director

Baylor University’s former athletics director has a clear interpretation of how its high-profile sexual-assault scandal unfolded two years ago: A handful of board members and university officials concocted a plan to ensure that the football team would take the fall.

Ministry jobs and more

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…

‘Monstrous’ treatment of immigrant children isn’t ‘fake news,’ but fake humanity

One wonders if we have the same care for almost 3,000 children who have been ripped from their parents’ arms at the U.S./Mexico border as we did toward those 12 boys in Thailand who were trapped in a cave.

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