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Paying for the Second Amendment

Firearm obsession exemplifies our national identity, and we should all own that reality. Indeed, firearm violence has become so routine that barring an immediate political or spiritual Great Awakening, these events demand some form of national triage responding to the consequences of weaponized carnage.

Questions the court should ask the baker’s lawyer

If people are really committed to biblical laws, then they should be committed to all of them. Instead of asking if it should be legal to run a heterosexuals-only bakery, we should ask who else a biblical legalist should turn away. Refusing to make devil’s food cakes for gay couples may not be enough.

Transitions for the week of 11.17.17

Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.

Letters to the Editor

The latest from our readers: • Why not a standing committee to deal with clergy sex abuse reports? | Christa Brown • ‘Shoe boxes’ article helpful, but too negative | Karen Dahl, Sandy, Utah

For the last five months, pastor Jose Chicas has been hiding from ICE inside a N.C. religious center

Chicas is undocumented, and since late June, Durham’s School for Conversion, a religious education center on the property of St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church, has provided him with cover from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

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.”