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The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist

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...

But the Dow is at 23,000

It’s humbling and amazing to recognize that I live in the most financially successful nation in the history of the world — and it’s tragic and defeating to try to help people see how poor we really are, in so many important ways.

Jerry Falwell Jr. calls on evangelicals to rise up against ‘fake Republicans’

Jerry Falwell Jr, the influential evangelical president of Liberty University in Virginia, has passionately backed Steve Bannon’s declaration of “war” against what Falwell calls “fake Republicans.”

Inspired by Martin Luther King Jr., a new civil rights leader takes center stage

William Barber is engaged in perhaps the most ambitious civil rights campaign since the 1960s.

Pastors, politics and parishioners: Thoughts for engaging the issues

From Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority to William Barber II’s Moral Mondays, the last few decades in American life have seen a bolder and different kind of pairing of between the religious and the political, on all points of the spectrum.

Roy Moore: Supreme Court gay marriage ruling was ‘worse’ than upholding slavery in Dred Scott

Alabama GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore said late last year that the Supreme Court’s decision legalizing gay marriage was “even worse” than the notorious 1857 Dred Scott ruling that upheld slavery.

Paul for the people: John Dominic Crossan imagines a ‘Letter to the Americans’ in his new video series

Convinced that biblical study is not worth much if it can’t be shared with the people in the pews, Crossan has most recently been creating video packages for group study in churches, seminaries, and university classes.

Roy Moore is an outspoken fundamentalist about everything but climate change

Moore has remained uncharacteristically subtle when it comes to climate change and environmental issues.

Can a corporation exercise religion?

According to the Trump administration, even a company owned by millions of unrelated people can be a person of faith.

Fox and Friend: Sean Hannity and Robert Jeffress share the self-love at church

Jeffress’ Dallas megachurch, like others, is a television set with an unusually large studio audience, a fact that Hannity’s Sunday’s appearance underlined.

Hurricane Harvey brings out the missional in Cambodian Baptist church

Refugees are usually depicted as people in great need. And that’s understandable since most have escaped war and famine with little more than the shirts on their backs. But the devastation brought by Hurricane Harvey has enabled a church in…

William Barber and Liz Theoharis take the Poor People’s Campaign on the road

The campaign is confronting four interlocking issues: systemic racism, poverty, the war economy, and ecological devastation.

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