Baptist News Global

The greedification of tax policy is a sign of spiritual impoverishment

The most likely result of current tax reform legislation represents an assault on commonsensical notions of justice in general and on biblical faith in particular. Scripture is obsessed with the status of those excluded from the table of earth’s bounty.

State Baptist body weighs disqualifying CBF churches

A Southern Baptist state convention is considering kicking out cooperating churches that are also aligned with the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship.

Are seminaries still relevant?

Many seminaries are in trouble; there are few that are not fragile in some way. Issues include the challenge of recruitment, the burgeoning debt of seminarians, issues of placement for women graduates, the white privilege of which many seminaries are oblivious. It is a “troubled industry.”

What Harvey Weinstein’s fall and Donald Trump’s rise says about the state of American Christianity

American Christianity is no different than any other religion in this way: There are healthy, potentially life enriching versions of religious faith, and there are unhealthy, potentially life diminishing versions as well.

Alabama Baptists rattled by accusations against Roy Moore

Roy Moore was not on the official agenda as 800 Southern Baptists met for the annual Alabama Baptist Convention. But many people were talking about Moore, a Southern Baptist and U.S. Senate candidate.

Calling out sexual harassment and abuse in the church

Baptist leaders must use their voices, their platforms and their pulpits to call for an end of harassment and abuse. We must clearly and specifically identify the abuses we have seen and heard about and name those abuses as sin.

Baptist convention in Tennessee boots church for calling woman as pastor

More than 850 Baptists from 390 churches in Tennessee debated 15 minutes before voting overwhelmingly Nov. 14 to shun a historic east Tennessee congregation for calling a woman as senior pastor.

Three cheers for the power of awe

“Religion” derives from the same word as “ligament.” It is ultimately a connecting force and, with no divine object or mysterium tremendum, our experiences of awe are ultimately self-referential and delusional.

A suggestion for younger evangelicals: Lose the label

I am convinced that “evangelical” no longer means what it once did. And for the Jesus-following religious people it’s supposed to describe, it’s doing more harm than good.

People keep mistaking this church for an ‘anti-gay’ one. Did an arsonist do that, too?

Pastor Ernie Richards has avoided the anti-gay rhetoric of some other religious leaders. Pastor Charles Worley, well … hasn’t. Richards preaches at Providence Baptist Church in Vale, N.C. Worley preaches at Providence Road Baptist Church, in nearby Maiden, N.C.

N.C. Baptist convention denounces racism, but not the Confederate flag

The Baptist State Convention of North Carolina denounced racism in a resolution adopted at its annual meeting, but stopped short of endorsing the Southern Baptist Convention’s call to refrain from public displays of the Confederate flag or statements by SBC leaders supporting the removal of Civil War monuments.

Do we worship the flag?

For many Americans, the flag stirs emotions far deeper than anything God inspires. Have we created a national religion in which the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, the sacrifice of soldiers on the field of battle, and the invincibility of American firepower are practically indistinguishable?

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