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In marathon tour, American Baptist leaders assess damage of three hurricanes

Representatives of American Baptist Home Mission Societies Communications recently logged more than 6,100 miles of travel in seven days to assess damage and organize responses to three major Atlantic hurricanes that made landfall in the United States over a period…

Nothing divides voters like owning a gun

Americans are deeply split along demographic lines, but there aren’t many demographic characteristics that embody America’s cultural divide better than gun ownership.

Here he stood: Lutheran pilgrims travel to Germany on Reformation anniversary

As the American pilgrims approached Wartburg Castle, they let their imagination rewind five centuries to the night when Martin Luther was “kidnapped” by masked horsemen and hustled deep into the forest.

The Ninety-Five Theses

Out of love for the truth and the desire to bring it to light, the following propositions will be discussed at Wittenberg, under the oversight of the Reverend Father Martin Luther, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and Lecturer on…

Transitions for the week of 10.06.17

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

No atheists at mass shootings? Gospel triage

Might churches claim and enact a kind of gospel triage, responding with immediacy and intentionality to the external/internal struggles of persons impacted by gun violence?

Christendom is dead. It’s time to be vulnerable.

Where are the churches willing to model vulnerability? I’ll tell you what they look like. They have given up on Christendom. They have given up on the notion that they hold some place of privilege in our culture.

The myth of women’s ‘empowerment’

It’s time to change the “empowerment” conversation. Development organizations’ programs must be evaluated on whether they enable women to increase their potential for political mobilization, to create sustainable gender equality.

Church votes no weddings until all can marry in its denomination

Weddings already scheduled at First Methodist Church in Austin, Texas, across the street from the state capitol, will take place as planned. The church vote means that, at least for the time being, no new marriage ceremonies will be scheduled.

You have been warned, Pat Robertson!

It didn’t take long for some preachers to start telling us why God caused the horrible mass murder in Las Vegas. Pat Robertson led the way, declaring it was divine retribution for “disrespect” for Donald Trump in America.

Can you feel the temperature? Here is a buried human being

Can we feel that there are human beings, very close to us, created in God’s image, who are being buried? If we cannot, perhaps we need to be silent and attentive in order to listen to their stories of suffering due to spiritual, social, economic, and/ or physical conditions that are foreign to us.

It wasn’t cute puppies that got Jesus killed

Amy and I had a fight last week. Well, let’s call it a disagreement. Since we share all pastoral responsibilities at our church, we try to be careful to distinguish between professional and personal issues. I think this was both….

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