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...
Adapting to climate change requires something that’s hard for Americans: choosing collective solutions over individual ones.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Sept. 20 challenging a Michigan law allowing faith-based child placement agencies receiving taxpayer funds to deny services to same-sex couples because of religious objections. The 2105 law is similar to legislation…
The work of racial reconciliation doesn’t follow a pre-made template, says NBC Executive Director Hannah McMahan. “It’s not spelled out.”
More than 420,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar over the last several weeks. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s comments about that in a recent speech are disturbing.
While the loyalty of some faith leaders can be traced to the belief that America should be restored as a “Christian nation,” many board members cite a far more practical reason: unprecedented access to a notoriously independent president.
A second Arkansas judge has ruled the state must reveal more information about drugs used in lethal injections for capital punishment. Pulaski County Circuit Judge Mackie Pierce ruled Sept. 19 that officials must disclose the labels on its new supply…
Many elements of Lost Cause religion were rooted in distorted biblical hermeneutics, interpretative methods that gave proof texts for anti-Semitism, chattel slavery, Jim Crow separatism and white privilege.
People look at the same thing, or same person, and come to widely different conclusions about the nature and significance of those things or persons. That says more about the people than the thing observed.
The first church in North Carolina to extend sanctuary to an undocumented immigrant facing deportation finds that the decision to open their doors is just the beginning of the journey.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Cynthia Aulds, concluding her tenure as missions coordinator at Sugar Land (Texas) Baptist Church. Danielle Bridgeforth, to First…
Asking a judicial nominee to explain statements made about the relationship between her faith and the law is fair game. It is peculiar for religious conservatives to be squeamish about such questions.
Worshiping with drug addicts and sometimes-disruptive schizophrenics wasn’t the way Jimmy Dorrell envisioned his calling while growing up in Conroe, Texas, in the 1960s.
