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CBF-wide task force to preview resources that address clergy sexual misconduct

DALLAS — A task force launched two years ago by the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and Baptist Women in Ministry to educate and resource churches about clergy sexual misconduct will preview an educational video and a church policy guideline resource at…

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Cynicism pales in the face of wonder

The wonders of nature can bless us with an expanded vision of who we are and whose we are.

Harvest America brings thousands of Christians to AT&T Stadium for fellowship in faith

Many participants are expected to stay in Dallas for the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting this week, attending panels on the church as the convention elects a new president. The Southern Baptist gathering has drawn added attention this year, with…

Baptists break bread with Turkish Muslims, forging new friendships at Dallas church

At Thursday night’s Iftar dinner, hosted by the church and the Dialogue Institute of Dallas, families from Muslim and Baptist communities mingled at Wilshire Baptist Church.

Under fire from #MeToo, embattled Southern Baptist leader withdraws from convention sermon

Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson has surrendered his assignment of delivering the keynote sermon at next week’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting, while denying published reports that led to his recent firing as president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Seminary…

Emerging Gen Z may deliver huge blow to religion in U.S.

It looks like Gen Z, the age group with older members just now graduating from high school, wants as little or less from religious organizations than their Millennial predecessors. That may come as little surprise to churches, nonprofits and businesses…

#MeToo goes to church: Southern Baptists face a reckoning over treatment of women

“Many women have experienced horrific abuses within the power structures of our Christian world,” Beth Moore, an evangelical teacher, wrote in a letter.

The Wrong Kind of Jesus: From Symbol to Substance

Distinguishing Right Jesus and Wrong Jesus is hard, especially when a weaponized Christ is used – right and left of center – to intimidate or exclude each other.

Religion Notes: Spelling bee champ clinches with word most evangelicals already know

Koinonia, one of the most popular Greek words in the English-speaking evangelical world, made a splashy return to the limelight during the 2018 Scripps National Spelling Bee.

Transitions for the week of 6-8-18

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Paul Aita, to First Baptist Church, Olympia, Wash, as pastor in the interim. Samuel Brink, to First Baptist…

Decades of marginalizing and silencing women have left evangelicals morally compromised

Men in leadership have used the Bible to mask a patriarchal misogyny. That’s what’s driving today’s #MeToo church movement.

Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

Restored Voices Collective gets GRACE report on former board member

‘CatsOnACouch’ influencer sues over First Amendment rights

Court finds Trump and Blanche conspired to create sham IRS lawsuit