As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have...
Supporters in 30 states will be trained on nonviolent direct actions, taking cues from the “Moral Monday”’ movement.
The founder of one of America’s largest megachurches says an internal investigation that cleared him of alleged inappropriate behavior with women is taking its toll.
Evangelist Franklin Graham is calling for a boycott of Target, blaming a recent incident in one of its stores on the retailer’s two-year-old policy allowing transgender shoppers and workers to use the restroom of their choice rather than the one…
I wept because I knew where this kind of religion led Jesus and where it led Clarence Jordan, and where it led Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and where, in the fullness of time, it might lead me.
“Of all the Bible studies I’ve written on policy, Trump’s enacting everything I’ve written,” says Ralph Drollinger, leader of the first Cabinet-level Bible study for “at least 100 years.”
In Lynchburg they aimed to fellowship, and to reaffirm their values — but also to serve as a thorn in the side of those who promote a conservative brand of their faith that has aligned itself with President Trump.
Seventy-two percent of U.S. Christian women say religion is “very important” in their lives, compared with 62 percent of the country’s Christian men.
Too many states in our union, and even our nation itself, have cut funding for public education to the point of instability. This is neither wise nor fiscally conservative. It is, instead, selfish. There is a difference between fiscal conservativism and selfishness, by the way.
For Gazmend Muharemi and his partners, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field personnel Alicia and Jeff Lee, however, money generated by cow banking means renewal — not for their own pocketbooks — but for the community they love.
Martha Kearse knew the young men were out of their element as soon as she saw them milling in bewilderment at the grocery store’s vast array of options. Very tall, very thin and very confused, they stood out like flies in a glass of milk. Kearse suspected they were some of the Lost Boys of South Sudan that she’d seen featured on the TV news magazine 60 Minutes.
“Red Letter Christians” wonder what the Trump/evangelical alliance means for the reputation of the church in the future.
The hugely popular trilogy isn’t really about Christianity. It’s about a persecution complex.
