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Abuse controversy prompts counseling group to move meeting from seminary campus

The Association of Biblical Counselors has moved an October conference about using the Bible to counsel abuse victims from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary to another location in light of controversial statements by the seminary’s erstwhile president. Heath Lambert, outgoing executive…

Black seminarian questions evangelical identity given white Christian support for Trump

Sam Washington is a seminarian and Air Force veteran who was studying to become an evangelical pastor when Donald Trump was elected to the presidency. “I wonder if I should even go to church anymore,” Washington, who is black, wrote…

#AlMohlerToo: Did a Southern Baptist power broker just get woke?

Seminary president Albert Mohler, in a widely circulated essay, has called for independent, third-party investigations of allegations of sexual abuse in churches and Christian ministries. That position stands in stark contrast to the one he took in the recent past.

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Roman Catholics And Evangelicals move apart in their political priorities

Roman Catholics and evangelicals, two Christian groups that have had overlapping political priorities in the past, find their agendas diverging in the era of President Trump and Pope Francis.

The peril of selective inerrancy

Demanding that women keep silent about abuse and submit to male headship is all about patriarchy and nothing about biblical values.

A Memorial Day reminder for the 81 percent

“Kyrios Christos!” (literally, “Lord Christ” or Christ is Lord!) The 81 percent of Evangelical Christians in America who voted for and still support Donald Trump are desperately in need of a reminder that “Kyrios Christos” is Christianity 101. It is the first central…

The Lord’s Table of remembrance vs. the nation’s vow of preeminence

The enduring scandal of the Gospel—even in a land like ours, purportedly “under God” and crowded with spires and steeples—is Jesus’ rejection of redemptive violence.

Letters to the Editor for 05.26.18

The latest from our readers: • Abuse of women isn’t the result of theological systems. It’s the result of sin | Layne Wallace, Roanoke Rapids, N.C.

Contrast between Christian and traditional religions emerges along with Hawaiian lava flow

Recent volcanic eruptions have more than molten lava oozing to the surface on Hawaii’s Big Island. In addition to quakes and tremors and sulfuric acid poisoning the air, destroying homes and forcing some evacuations, nearly a month of heightened seismic activity also is exposing long simmering fissures between Christianity, and traditional Hawaiian religion.

6 questions for trustees of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Many SBC people have encouraged Patterson to retire for the sake of the SBC, which is incredibly tone deaf. He shouldn’t retire. He shouldn’t be moved to president emeritus, be given an indefinite teaching position and salary, housing for life, and be enshrined in an idolatrous stained-glass window. He should be forcefully terminated with cause, without severance pay, and be banned from campus for life for the sake of justice for those abused women he hurt with his misogyny, victim shaming, and silencing.

Dear Al Mohler, you humiliate yourself. Repent.

The hubris of Al Mohler, Paige Patterson, and the leaders of the conservative takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention has led to their own humiliation. The unfortunate fact is that their humiliation is a fraction of the humiliation that women, wives, sisters, daughters, aunts, and grandmothers have experienced at the hands of complementarian men.

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church