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...
A Southern Baptist megachurch pastor says President Donald Trump was right to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel because the Bible tells him so.
A historically black college with ties to a state Cooperative Baptist Fellowship organization is losing its president after a little more than a year.
Allegiance to Jesus’ kind of Kingdom will inevitably cause division with those who have different priorities. Peacemakers get in the way of warmongers. Justice hinders the power-brokers. Mercy impedes revenge.
Leather-jacketed motorcycle riders revved their bikes in their own tribute as they joined a large throng of family and friends who remembered a Kentucky lawmaker who killed himself a day after vehemently denying accusations of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
It’s surprising the housing allowance rule has lasted as long as it has. The significant benefit applies to clergy and no one else — to the tune of some $700 to $800 million in lost tax revenue annually.
Overtures by U.S. evangelicals to Arab churches are being tested by Trump’s Jerusalem decision.
What do our baptismal vows have to do with safety?
The impact of welcome: The Story of Jacob and Esau By Greg Warner In the Bible, twins Jacob and Esau are anything but brotherly. Trickery, betrayal and estrangement destroy their relationship. Jacob cheats his brother and flees his homeland, leaving his twin…
In October, I participated in a religious press tour of Jordan. Our group of writers, bloggers and editors visited ancient and biblical sites throughout the country and met with Jordanian officials and religious leaders, including leaders of the Jordan Baptist Convention.
Many Church of Christ members have historically drawn a sharp distinction between Christmas and the birth of Christ, usually dismissing the former as a commercial, even pagan, observance. Nowhere in the New Testament, preachers and Sunday school teachers have counseled,…
The head of a Baptist religious liberty coalition welcomed news Dec. 14 that language allowing churches and other charities to endorse candidates and engage in partisan politics is no longer included in a tax bill making its way through Congress….
Whites excluded from the uber rich have more in common with poor and middle-class communities of color than with their wealthier counterparts. But alt-right politicians and pundits succeeded in turning natural allies into mortal enemies.
