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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...

Patriotism or nationalism?

God’s Word seems abundantly clear. Any nation that is above critique is beyond God’s help. So, take a breath, fellow citizens. Not everyone who disagrees with you is unpatriotic. And beware, lest you become guilty of thoughtless allegiance to immoral and unjust policies.

Faith, family, firearms drive Georgia’s devotion to Second Amendment

“We are in business to be a supporter of the gospel. And, therefore, a supporter of the Second Amendment. Not only do we have those Second Amendment rights because God gives them to us, but also the gospel.”

How Buddhism is being used to justify violence in Myanmar

Since the 1990s, radicalized Buddhist monks have voiced “an aggressive anti-Muslim message.” Anti-Muslim riots in 2001-2002 and again in 2011-2012 left dozens of Rohingya dead and thousands displaced by what some call Buddhist terrorism.

Baptist school in spotlight after soda-throwing incident at NBA game

Students at California Baptist University gathered on campus Oct. 9 to send a counter-message to a racially charged viral video they say is giving the private Christian school controlled by the California Southern Baptist Convention a bad name.

For second time, federal judge strikes down tax break for clergy

A federal judge in Wisconsin has ruled for the second time as unconstitutional an Internal Revenue Service provision which exempts clergy from paying taxes on portions of their income designated for housing.

Naming darkness, claiming hope

Struggling to find the right balance between naming darkness and preaching hope is the substance of our work in this moment: as leaders, as people of faith, as participants in the work of healing the world.

When fear appears in the congregation, choose love

We live in a world that is ripe with fear. And fear is such an easy response and reaction. And fear might very well be valid. But what if we choose love?

Sessions outlines broad exemptions for religious freedom

New legal guidance could affect health care, gay rights, political action by churches

How contraception became a ‘religious liberty’ issue

The Catholic Church and other conservative Christian groups have successfully reframed the religious freedom debate.

Bucking anti-refugee attitudes, small N.C. church opens ‘welcome house’

Refugees are increasingly unwelcome in many places around the world. But anti-refugee hostility wasn’t the challenge a North Carolina Baptist congregation faced in opening a refugee house on its Raleigh property this year.

You don’t have to live like a refugee

You can read David Gushee’s “Still Christian: Following Jesus Out of American Evangelicalism” in an evening or afternoon. You can and you should.

Las Vegas shooting prompts call for gun control

A coalition of more than 50 national denominations and faith-based organizations urged Congress to reject legislation backed by the National Rifle Association they say will further endanger communities in response to the Oct. 1 mass shooting that killed 58 people…

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