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Kansas City church rebrands for inclusion

A Baptist church in Kansas City has rebranded itself to declare both its adherence to denominational roots and its identity as an open and affirming congregation. Holmeswood Baptist Church is now Holmeswood Church with a prominent tagline: “Baptist Roots, Inclusive…

SBC luminary Morris Chapman dies at 84

Former Southern Baptist Convention leader Morris Chapman died in Nashville Oct. 20 at age 84 after a brief illness. Chapman led the SBC Executive Committee from 1992 through 2010 and was the first leader of that agency installed by the…

Is there a common source for the Ten Commandments bills?

As Republican-dominated states seek to require displays of the Ten Commandments in school classrooms, critics are noting some odd similarities in the language of the bills. It seems possible — even likely — the bills are originating from a common…

Is Christian nationalists’ use of Romans 13 kinky or perverted?

A pastor praying outside an ICE facility in Chicago gets shot in the head by a pepper pellet and collapses to the ground in pain. Commentators dispute whether the protesters had been warned to leave, although currently circulating videos don’t…

N.T. Wright: Ephesians is blueprint for multiethnic church

Renowned biblical scholar N.T. Wright believes Ephesians is a book for this moment. To show that, he has written a new book on Ephesians, arguing the letter offers a radical vision for church unity that Western Christianity largely has missed….

Christian legal group ADF playing political kingmaker in England

Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian legal group founded four decades ago to defend believers in the U.S. who say they are being persecuted, has gone on the offensive in England, where it is backing populist right-wing leader Nigel Farage…

Here’s what the Churches of Christ and MAGA have in common

The MAGA agenda marks Make America Great Again as a classic restorationist movement, sharing its most basic assumption with restorationist movements that have appeared over the course of Christian history — the 16th-century Anabaptists, for example, or in America, Baptists,…

Theologian moms call out myths of ‘biblical’ parenting ‘experts’

The book is called The Myth of Good Christian Parenting, but its theologian-mom authors expose not one but a dozen myths promoted by a “biblical” parenting expert boom that has left some moms and dads feeling betrayed and some children…

Jesus is being tear gassed at Broadview

What follows is an open letter from more than 100 Chicago-area clergy issued Friday, Oct. 17. “Can I use my pastoral expense account to buy a gas mask?” It’s a question dozens of Chicago pastors asked our church boards…

United Methodist pastor violently arrested in Chicago

United Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon of United Church of Rogers Park, Ill., was violently arrested along with eight others at a peaceful protest at the Broadview ICE facility this morning. Kardon was part of a clergy group that was to…

The patriot’s glossary of MAGAtarian doublespeak, part 1

In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt concluded the ideal subjects of authoritarians are not necessarily their most convinced partisan followers, but “people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and…

Fast-track deportations blocked by court

The Trump administration has been temporarily blocked from expanding fast-track deportations in its bid to hurriedly remove undocumented immigrants from the U.S. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb issued the stay in Make the Stay New York v. Kristi Noem after…

Understanding Al Mohler’s case against women

BNG podcasts feature each SBC presidential candidate

What the church got wrong about queer people

Trump admin denies hunger strike at immigrant detention center