White conservative Christian men are rising up all over the nation to take their place at the top of their families, churches and communities. We’re witnessing their rise to power through the Rededicate 250 events where men like Mark Driscoll called on...
Something else needs to be said about the savagery of separating children from parents at the U.S.-Mexico border: this policy change is in fact a form of terrorism.
America’s largest Protestant group moves to cut ties with the Republican Party and re-engage with mainstream culture.
Dinner, dessert and fellowship, it turned out, were only appetizers at the Friends of BNG Annual Fund Dinner.
A quarter century after apologizing to African-Americans for white ancestors who supported slavery and Jim Crow segregation, the Southern Baptist Convention has kicked out a church for being too racist. The SBC Executive Committee reported June 12 to convention messengers…
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Luke Beattie, to Main Street Baptist Church, Binghamton, N.Y., as pastor. Jeremy Dudley, to First Baptist Church, Argyle,…
The work of #ChurchToo cannot be undertaken within evangelical churches without first re-assessing, if not dismantling, the stringent purity culture which remains a prominent feature of youth ministries.
Every pastor needs ancient reservoirs to sustain relevant ministry.
There will be singing, preaching, praying, and hand holding at SBC and CBF meetings. Meanwhile, victims of sacralized bigotry and discrimination will be ignored, patronized, blamed and otherwise trivialized.
The day before thousands of Southern Baptists passed a resolution proclaiming a wake-up call to #MeToo-style mistreatment of women in denominational life, Anne Marie Miller continued a month-long struggle to save her family from financial ruin. Miller, a former blogger…
The Southern Baptist Convention condemned both perpetrators and enablers of sexual and physical abuse in a resolution June 12 claiming belatedly to position the denomination on the side of victims. “We deplore, apologize and ask forgiveness for failures to protect…
Churches have come up with some creative ways to stay in their buildings in an era of plummeting membership and revenue. But many others – estimates range from 4,000 to 7,000 a year – are just plain going out of…
I was a Master of Divinity student at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary from 1973 to 1975. As regularly occurred with women students, I had been admitted to the School of Religious Education. Yet, I enrolled in all M.Div. courses because…
