Christians often have been reminded that some of their forebears supported slavery, but many do not know Christians ended slavery in the United States. Southern Baptists, in particular, frequently are reminded their convention began amid the defense of slavery. Yet...
If Christians in America cannot raise our collective voices against our government’s treatment of these “little ones,” then we’re the ones who serve a “lesser god.”
The abuse of scripture in the “law and order” defense of atrocities at the U.S. border has been roundly and rightly criticized. But, moderate and progressive Christians, let’s be honest: fundamentalists and government officials aren’t the only ones guilty of a perverted form of natural theology.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES David Emmanuel Goatley, to Duke Divinity School, Durham, N.C., as research professor of theology and black church studies…
Today, the Methodists and Baptists are not really fighting over mere “issues.” They are fighting about whether women, people of color, immigrants, and LGBTQ people should, on the basis of human dignity and worth, have full rights, responsibilities and respect in their church communities.
How could the United States separate 2,000 children from their parents, perhaps never to be reunited? After all, as The Atlantic reports, this is the wealthiest civilization that the world has ever known, one with a bipartisan commitment to equality…
God does not affirm laws simply because they are put in place by authorities, as Jeff Sessions claimed. God affirms laws that are created for and serve humanity.
Amid an epidemic of suicides, some fatalities were victims of bad theology who never heard a helpful word from the church.
Attorney General Sessions would do well to read the entire letter of Romans – or at least all of chapter 13.
The folks who fell for Pressler and Patterson in the 1980s are the same folks who voted for Trump in 2016. They all live in the same bubble.
While immigrants have been crossing the border for two centuries without documentation, the time has arrived for our government to figure out a better way to care for these children.
Baptist leaders joined a chorus of voices criticizing U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions for using the Bible to defend the Trump administration’s practice of separating children from migrant parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Addressing criticism by church leaders of the…
We must let our elected leaders know that people of faith will not support a misreading of scripture or stand by while our government destroys families.
