It is midnight. Not the kind of midnight measured by clocks. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that lingers long after the sun has risen. We all know this midnight. It is the midnight of the marriage...
After 15 years of litigation, a state judge ruled Sept. 27 that trustees of two Missouri Baptist Convention entities violated their own articles of agreement when they acted unilaterally to choose their own successors instead of those nominated by the MBC.
A church-state specialist says Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ 25-page memorandum outlining the scope of religious liberty protections reflects “a decided tilt” toward concerns about the free exercise of religion while giving short shrift to the First Amendment’s establishment clause.
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When the world is hard, we have to look harder. We are detectives searching for clues. Hope does not shout, but if we listen carefully we hear whispers. Hopeful things are happening, but we have to pay attention.
Despite claims he did not take a “regular salary” from the Christian charity he founded, former Alabama judge Roy Moore privately arranged to receive a salary of $180,000 a year for part-time work.
When it comes to advocating for the religious liberty of everyone, silence is not an option, says Amanda Tyler, elected a year ago as executive director of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty. “A full throated defense of religious freedom is required here,” she maintains.
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
