A Houston megachurch has been in the news due to member concerns about the ways its bylaws were amended and governance was effectively removed from the congregation and entrusted to a small group handpicked by the senior pastor. While this...
When Texas pastor Freddy Haynes joined other ministers over the summer calling for a boycott of the NFL, it was to protest the league’s treatment of embattled quarterback Colin Kaepernick. But Donald Trump has pushed the debate, and the proposed…
Many people shrink from writing a check. They’d rather fill a shopping cart than contribute an equivalent amount in cash. Why hesitate to give money? There are two reasons: Money is an abstraction; and money is dangerous.
The real difference is the resilience that comes from generations of families committed to one place.
Twelve former moderators of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship are among more than 500 names attached to an online petition urging current leaders to drop the organization’s 17-year-old ban against hiring LGBT people. The petition — delivered this week to a…
Baptist-affiliated Gardner-Webb University went into lockdown Sept. 27 after gunshots were fired on the campus in Boiling Springs, N.C. No injuries were reported, and university officials told local media the campus returned to its normal schedule on Thursday. As of…
A group of prominent evangelicals — including Southern Baptist Convention President Rev. Steve Gaines, former SBC President Rev. Fred Luter and the Rev. T.D. Jakes — is calling on President Donald Trump to take further steps to condemn white supremacists.
The Village Church, the multisite Texas megachurch led by Matt Chandler, will transition from several campuses, leaving behind a multisite model for a deeper commitment to local ministry and church planting.
Albert Mohler’s comments refer to Martin’s suggestion that Catholics should refer to same sex attraction or an LGBT identity as “differently ordered” rather than the Catechism’s use of “intrinsically disordered.”
Baylor University said an email written by its former interim president regarding the role of alcohol in sexual assault cases was misrepresented by 10 women who claim in a lawsuit the school denied them educational rights under Title IX.
A Southern Baptist seminary professor says it is time for Civil War monuments erected decades after Gettysburg and Appomattox for the purpose of intimidating Southern blacks to come down. “I would advocate for the vast majority of Confederate monuments to…
I recognize our anti-Semitic history, cognizant of how our Jewish sisters and brothers suffered at the hands of Christians for centuries; but this does not excuse the oppressed of history wielding the power of the oppressors.
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