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...
Take a few hundred Nazis and Klansmen marching openly in Charlottesville, add three fatalities and a wink from the White House, and many people are apt to wonder if God is really out there.
It was a showdown of biblical dimension: The king’s priests versus the prophet of God. The photo showed the evangelical leaders laying hands on President Trump in the White House. Then here comes the Rev. William Barber challenging their actions…
Members of First Baptist Church of Christ, one of Macon, Ga.’s, oldest churches, on Sunday overwhelmingly approved allowing same-sex marriage ceremonies in the church.
Hurricane Harvey shut down Sunday services from downtown to the sprawling suburbs, where churches replaced typical worship gatherings with sermon videos posted on Facebook or simply messages to stay safe.
An Aug. 14 mudslide that left more than 500 dead and 810 missing in Sierra Leone hit the majority Muslim nation’s small Baptist community particularly hard, according to the Baptist World Alliance.
The African-American pastor who initiated this summer’s Southern Baptist Convention resolution denouncing the alt-right urged other members of Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board to step down in protest of the president’s remarks after the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va.
Many questions are being explored as these faithful teams attempt to craft a working budget for the year ahead. Here are four questions they would do well to ask.
Few disaster relief outfits have been as organized as the Baptist and Methodist networks. Imagine Delores J. Porter’s surprise, then, when she stepped onto the exposed floor joists of her torn-out home to find a troop of young Muslim volunteers.
Many religious activists and experts on the relevant law said the order amounted to a symbolic gesture with little chance of shaking the status quo. Now the Trump administration’s own lawyers have essentially taken the same position.
We can stick our head in the sand if we want, cheer for the lie at all the campaign rallies — or we can start envisioning a new world which values people over productivity, the common good over common goods.
Integration itself is not the problem. The issue is that in many integrated settings, many of the white people don’t understand black experiences, the struggle or the references, or feel the pain and the pleasure of being black.
Despite what our economy has taught all of us about the methods of production, you can’t outsource self-sacrifice on behalf of your faith to a Bangladeshi factory worker or to an overly-educated white dude in a robe or skinny jeans or both.
