Baptist News Global

Navigating the church’s engagement with the digital world

One of the ways our society has vastly changed in just the last 15 years has been the creation of an alternative world, a digital world, and we’ve been trying to assess its impact on relationships and institutions ever since we realized it wasn’t going away.

Liminal existence for Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees

Pope Francis is visiting Myanmar, where Christians are only about 4 percent to 5 percent of the approximately 55 million people who live there. He hopes to draw attention to the plight of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who are being driven out of the Rakhine State into Bangladesh, where they live the liminal reality of refugees.

Can Pope Francis help Myanmar’s Muslims without hurting its Christians?

The answer in majority-Buddhist Burma hinges on one controversial word: Rohingya.

First Nations Kitchen serves ancestral foods to the Native American community

Don’t call First Nations Kitchen a soup line. Yes, it serves dinners to those who can’t afford them. But it is run by indigenous people for indigenous people and features a menu of the ancestral foods of indigenous people.

Letters to the Editor

The latest from our readers: Sex abuse victims not safe in Baptistland | Christa Brown, Denver

Church of Sweden to stop referring to God as ‘he’ or ‘Lord’

The head of the largest Swedish Christian church says God is beyond human gender determination.

U.S. society is getting meaner. Who are we becoming?

We’re harder and more calloused and just downright meaner, in music and sports and in national and international policies, in politics in general and our approach to one another in specific.

Baptist ethicist says ‘egalitarian theology’ a safeguard against abuse

The incoming head of a Baptist ethics agency says church teaching that subordinates women is partly to blame for the rash of allegations of sexual abuse by powerful men in media, business and politics.

One simple way to tell real persecution from persecution complex (and why we have to get this right)

There is one simple and relatively reliable way to distinguish real persecution or marginalization: personal examples.

If a person can provide multiple, real life, personal examples of how they or their community have fallen victim to abuse, harassment or exclusion, based on who they are and with little recourse and choice, then it’s likely the real deal. If generalities are all a person can give in response, or if they return to a few isolated incidents that are not systemic, then it is likely manufactured (and likely stoked by certain media outlets).

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Afghani refugee shares about CBF ministry’s impact of welcoming

When Jay first arrived at the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship refugee ministry Welcome House from Afghanistan, he was prepared to endure four long, wearisome years getting on his feet and integrating into American society. Little did he know that he would spend less than four months securing an apartment, a new job and a life full of hope thanks to a network of CBF churches.

News alert: God speaks through donkeys, burning bushes, rocks — and women ministers

There will always be daring churches like First Baptist of Jefferson City who will not be afraid to live into God’s vision of the full partnership of women and men in ministry. Yet I still fear the perpetuation of the belief in women’s second-class status.

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war