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...
The year 2017 may not have been the biggest ever for religion news in the U.S. or the world, but it has to be close.
Turns out this is actually the worst time of the year to set new goals. Here’s how to reframe your grand aspirations into something more attainable.
For many Christian women, including racial minorities, and others whose voices traditionally have not been heard by or represented in institutional churches, the internet has created new platforms to teach, preach and connect. But has that created what the Rev. Tish Harrison Warren called…
Prominent Georgia Baptist leader and former missionary to Nigeria Pearl Holmes DuVall died Dec. 26.
Churches from around the state are mobilizing to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of a North Carolina pastor whose wife died in a Christmas Eve fire. “People are rallying around this family and this church,” said Larry Hovis,…
Teddy Roosevelt’s assumptions of white supremacy changed over time. What can that tell us about the United States today?
Selections from The Atlantic’s coverage of 2017, when the right-wing movement gained momentum
Cinema and religion are never far apart—both bring light to darkened places.
Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.
It would be understandable for pastors of Hispanic churches in the United States to worry about new data showing that Latino identity is fading across generations. Wouldn’t that ultimately portend membership declines for ethnic congregations as fewer and fewer self-identify…
The bustle of the past few weeks slows today. It is a time of reflection and quieting the spirit. Even the relentless urge to consume begins to re-set as the year comes to a close. We realize that we are more than what we possess or give. Like Mary, we ponder what is yet to come.
Two Boston-area congregations and their supporters have chosen to provide shelter to a woman from Ecuador and her children, and a man from El Salvador.
