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The latest from our readers: • Roy Moore election would legitimize guilt for everyone except the perpetrator | Susan Glass, Kingsport, Tenn. • Truth is truth, no matter who says it | Philip Brown, Macon, Ga. • Why not more letters? | Kirby D. Smith, Chesterfield, Va.

Transitions for the week of 11.24.17

Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.

Letters to the Editor

The latest from our readers • Stand up for Christianity in the face of evangelicalism’s mess | David Hicks, Shanghai, China

Christianity is political. But America’s politically active Christians seem to be forgetting that.

Some appear to be open to establishing a pattern whereby even egregious moral failure is a price worth paying for political and cultural power; one need not seek actual goodness, but only not to exceed the badness of one’s opponents.

Two Texas churches, linked by tragedy amid the pews

Baptist churches in the Texas towns of Daingerfield and Sutherland Springs have become sister congregations, linked by eerily similar attacks 37 years apart.

Two Alabama clergy groups decry sexual assault, but only one of them names Roy Moore

Five dozen progressive Christian ministers — eight of them Baptists — signed an open letter over the weekend saying U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore is unfit for office, while nearly 100 Southern Baptists in Alabama added their names to a separate missive denouncing sexual abuse and harassment of women without mentioning anyone by name.

Revamped ‘settlement house movement’ fosters faith-based approach to social work, community engagement

Kendall Ellis is embarked on a quest to discern her vocation. She has joined other “settlers” who live at Good Neighbor House in Waco, Texas, spending a year planning and hosting meetings of neighborhood groups and encouraging other activities aimed at fostering relationships throughout the area.

Letters to the Editor

The latest from our readers • The wedding cake case is not religious discrimination | Stan Hastey, West Palm Beach. Fla.

Christian support for Roy Moore ‘looks like hypocrisy to the outside world’

Recent allegations against the aspiring Alabama senator fit a long and complicated history of religious debates about sex.

GOP ‘war’ on Johnson Amendment turns serious

When last we visited Republican meddling with the Johnson Amendment, it was (according to me) much ado about very little. With passage of the tax bill in the House of Representatives, it has turned into something serious.

After Sutherland Springs, faith leaders urge Congress to act against gun violence

A coalition of 50 faith groups, including the Alliance of Baptists, American Baptist Home Mission Societies and Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, urged leaders in Congress to take immediate action to curb gun violence in response to the Nov. 5 slaughter of 26 people attending worship at a small-town Southern Baptist church in Texas.

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

Letters to the Editor

Transitions for the week of 11.24.17

Letters to the Editor

Christianity is political. But America’s politically active Christians seem to be forgetting that.

Two Texas churches, linked by tragedy amid the pews

Two Alabama clergy groups decry sexual assault, but only one of them names Roy Moore

Letters to the Editor

Christian support for Roy Moore ‘looks like hypocrisy to the outside world’

GOP ‘war’ on Johnson Amendment turns serious

After Sutherland Springs, faith leaders urge Congress to act against gun violence

After US Aid Cuts, the Sick Wonder Who Will Visit Them

Inside a Christian mother’s fight against ICE activity in Chicagocu

Why removing a distinct religious code for Native American military service members will make their needs invisible

The Denomination That’s Half Evangelical, Half Black Protestant — And somehow holding together

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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

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