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...
Our churches are not PACs. Let us bring the light of the Church out into the world without sullying our sanctuaries. Let us live in our faith as citizens without becoming cashiers for the tawdry transactions of political machines.
Contemporary concerns about faith seem to be driven more by politics than personal faith, as political leaders compel their memberships to view certain believers — or nonbelievers — as threats to the party’s cause.
My parents didn’t teach me Spanish, I have an Alabama accent, and I have no memories of Mexico. Still, the president thinks it’s a good idea to deport me.
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders urged CBF members to contact the White House expressing disappointment with the administration’s decision to phase out a program granting temporary legal presence and employment authorization for immigrants brought to the U.S. as undocumented children.
Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders and pastors across the country released a statement Sept. 6 condemning individual and systemic racism and renewing the 1,800-church movement’s commitment to “seeking out authentic relationships across racial lines.” The statement, signed by more than 100…
Following “considerable prayer and discussion” prompted by last month’s white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Va., Washington National Cathedral has decided to remove stained-glass windows honoring two Confederate generals.
Perhaps the signers are really mourning the loss of a post-Constantinian culture in a society where Protestant privilege wanes and churches must give witness to Christ’s gospel, not depending on principalities and powers to assist them.
A new study illustrates how seismic shifts in the nation’s racial and religious identities have altered the composition of the two major political parties significantly. But the parties are not changing at the same pace.
For a couple days last week, Hurricane Harvey and its flooding pushed a Baptist who works closely with Muslim immigrants in Houston nearly to despair. “Most of these folks have never seen this. They are from desert areas. Flooding is beyond them.”
On the one hand, I experienced the guilt of surviving Hurricane Harvey, and on the other, the guilt of surviving harsh immigration laws.
Por un lado, experimenté la culpabilidad de sobrevivir al huracán Harvey, y por otro, la culpabilidad de sobrevivir a duras leyes de inmigración.
