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...
What’s the solution to the firearms dilemma for a pastor in gun-loving Texas? Visiting and listening.
First, the Rev. Richard Joyner got mad. Then he got a trowel. Sick and tired of seeing his congregation suffer from poor nutrition, the North Carolina minister took action.
The Museum of the Bible, a massive new institution opening next month just south of the Mall, is just as notable for what it includes as for what it leaves out.
“The Latin cross is the core symbol of Christianity. And here, it is 40 feet tall, prominently displayed at one of the busiest intersections in Prince George’s County, Md., and maintained with thousands of dollars in government funds.”
Corina Lopez came to the U.S. in 2001 after an earthquake devastated her home country, El Salvador. She thought she would return in three years. “That was my plan, but not God’s will,” Lopez said at a rally to support a program to give legal status to people hindered from returning home because of natural disaster or armed conflict.
Is this “a Bonhoeffer moment” in American political, cultural and spiritual life? A lot of people, across the theological spectrum, seem to think as much, or at least find the question worth pursuing.
As a woman in ministry, I have followed safe church policies when working with children and youth. None of those policies protected me from inappropriate behavior, whether by church members or supervising ministers.
Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.
The religious right wants to open up the spigots of government funding after natural disasters. But their ultimate goal is to secure more public funds for churches.
Used to be, it was the occasional apple or other healthy snack that ruined an otherwise perfect candy collection on Halloween night. But creationist Ken Ham has taken spoiling the holiday to a new level with “Halloween Learn & Share Kits” designed to scare children straight into the judging arms of Jesus.
A new lawsuit alleges that one of South Carolina’s largest and most respected Southern Baptist churches failed to report to police evidence of child sex abuse by a volunteer youth worker as required by law.
All the judgment parables in Matthew (as well as all the judgment texts in Mark and Luke) have to do with fruits — the consequences of our faith, rather than the content of our faith. Does that scare you? It shouldn’t.
