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Court case highlights need for stronger Baptist voice on pro-life concerns

If Baptist churches decry the scourge of gun violence, speak boldly against unjust travel bans, stand with immigrants against thinly-veiled bigoted rhetoric from the highest levels of power, but have nothing to say of the more than 650,000 girls and boys created by God with divine purpose who, each year, see their lives cut short in the womb, our ethic is blown wide open for a watching world to see.

First Nassar Accuser Denhollander Talks Justice, Forgiveness at Harvard

Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse, visited Harvard Thursday to speak about how she seeks to live with both justice and forgiveness.

‘You are on the side of justice’ – clergy host prayer event at Capitol

Mitch Randall, executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics and former pastor of NorthHaven Church in Norman, Okla., helped organize the “Clergy Day of Prayer and Action” to show support for public school teachers and public education.

Southern Baptist association boots church for alleged racism

A Southern Baptist church in southwest Georgia has been expelled from its local association for what local media reports portray as unrepentant racism.

My undelivered stand-up routine for those not likely to come back to church

I’m surprised to be at the Comedy Cellar because — and I know how this sounds — I’m a minister. Saying that you’re a minister shuts down conversations with barbers, waitresses and the person sitting next to you on the plane. That last one is helpful.

What the Church needs is a new reformation

If Christianity is to be a force for good in the world by helping to heal our deep psychic, personal brokenness, to restore estranged relationships often marked by betrayal and contempt, to transform us into more loving, compassionate persons who care for others, then Western Christianity, and American Christianity in particular, must undergo a new reformation.

Campolo says ‘Red Letter Revival’ seeks to convert evangelicals to social activism

A group of Christians often labeled as “progressive evangelicals” will hold a revival — in Lynchburg, Va., a center of conservative Christianity — designed to reconnect that old-time religion with concern and activism for social justice.

Art and faith converge at a hybrid church/community arts center

Art shapes faith and faith shapes art at Convergence, a combination church and arts center that makes space for the creative exploration that artists crave and the church needs.

50 years after Martin Luther King’s death, a ‘new King’ fights for justice

William Barber, a pastor and political leader in North Carolina, believes mere remembrance is not enough.

Millennials hit the exits when church culture conflicts with gospel

It isn’t gimmicks but honesty that’s needed to heal the growing rift between young people and the church.

Affidavit alleges unwanted sexual encounter with former judge who led SBC to the right

The attorney representing a man suing former Southern Baptist Convention leader Paul Pressler for alleged sexual abuse has filed the first of what he says will be a series of affidavits corroborating his client’s claims.

Palm branches and protest signs

For those who have ears to hear, God is speaking — not in the wind, with an earthquake, or by fire, not in the halls of power, either, but through the voices of school children, the survivors, whose mourning has turned to marching.

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