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...
I deny that 153 self-appointed Evangelicals, rejecting such a broad and diverse swath of God’s beautiful world (and ignorant of their own, callous disregard for so many), have the right to define my “faithfulness and witness.”
Some scholars say the new Nashville Statement on sexuality has no basis in ancient Christianity.
A recent ABC News headline may have been a shocker to Americans who haven’t lived through a hurricane: “Hurricane Harvey recovery will be ‘multi-year project,’ Texas governor says.” That’s a fact many religious organizations know all too well. In fact, it’s their specialty.
The election of Donald Trump reveals a side of America long known to people in marginalized communities, says ethics professor Miguel De La Torre in a new book calling for faithful resistance to systems that perpetuate social and economic injustice.
Christians in Sierra Leone are still reeling from the worst flooding their West African nation has faced in recent memory, after a mudslide covered homes and churches on the outskirts of the capital city two weeks ago.
Five hundred years after the Reformation, surveys show that theological differences in the U.S. and Western Europe that split Western Christianity in the 1500s have diminished to a degree that might have shocked Christians in past centuries.
Comments of those who would otherwise be behind the statement’s traditional views show the way the Trump presidency has scrambled internal evangelical debate — particularly on the question of who has legitimacy to speak about morality in the public square.
More than 300 Christian leaders signed a statement released Aug. 30 declaring that God accepts LGBT persons as they are and not just if they vow celibacy or are willing and able to change their sexual orientation or gender identity.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Lane Bass, to Murfreesboro (N.C.) Baptist Church, as senior pastor, effective Nov. 7. Tom Baynham, concluding his tenure…
The signatories of the Nashville Statement see this as a fight for the soul of evangelicalism. But in reality, this is a struggle for the souls of our LGBTQ family and friends and neighbors.
Last month, the nuns filed suit in federal court, arguing that allowing the pipeline on their land would violate their rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The line of locals and tourists stretches about 400 people long, and one might think they are waiting to get into a play, a museum or even for ice cream. But these people want to go to a church service.
