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 more our vision and our imaginations are remade by resurrection, the more we should refuse to accept things as they are and insist on seeking new ways waiting to emerge.
Even if you’re not a Protestant, the anniversary of the revolution Martin Luther set in motion 500 years ago is a big deal. The Reformation was one of the decisive events that made the world we live in.
Oklahoma pastor Mitch Randall has been named executive director of the Baptist Center for Ethics, directors of the independently run ministry partner of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship announced Oct. 30.
America needs refugees as much as refugees need places like America, says Stephan Bauman, former president and CEO of World Relief. He spoke to refugees and volunteers at a “refugee welcome” event attended by more than 350 at Knollwood Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, N.C.
The book of Romans is often quoted by prominent preachers, even advisors to the current president, as justification for unyielding, unquestioning support of government. But context matters.
The national GOP’s director of evangelical outreach is quitting, and lodging complaints about what he calls the party’s “tone deaf attitude” toward a crucial Republican voting bloc.
An allegation of child sex abuse involving Columbia’s First Baptist Church was investigated by law enforcement and no charges were filed, the church, its student minister and longtime pastor say in their reply to a lawsuit.
Two Baptist pastors from Myanmar have received prison sentences for leading journalists to a church reportedly destroyed by military air strikes last year.
I may stand on the shoulders of theological giants, but John Howard Yoder’s egregious actions have forced my gaze downward only to see that I also stand on the hunched backs of Yoder’s victims. If I make it in this increasingly uncertain world of the theological academy, my rise will be due in part because of their fall.
A wide-ranging conversation has emerged around the sexual abuse perpetuated by the late Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder and the responses to it. Here is a sampling of that conversation.
Any of us who have looked up to a Christian teacher only to find out afresh how flawed they are will probably understand my reaction. What are we to make of everything they taught if their lives exhibited anything but…
Many observers are raising concerns that some pastors share in President Trump’s hard-core fan-the-flames approach to social media. But there are, other ministers say, confrontational and gentle approaches to social media that can be healing and prophetic.
