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...
We have to understand that justice depends on people telling the truth. Lies are matches that destroy forests that have been growing for decades. Lies turn harmony into hatred. Lies makes us forget how good honesty is.
The Baptist orthodoxy wars taught me this: When ideologues decide you are a heretic, they’ll raise the doctrinal ante until they prove it — if not to you, at least to themselves.
For me, anxious dreams represent a call to change. But change is hard. Change is difficult because it involves hard work — a multistep process that must be surrounded by prayer and discernment.
A Mormon church leader was removed from his post and kicked out of the religion Aug. 8, the first time the church has taken such action in nearly three decades.
Romans 13 gives the government authority to deal with evildoers, Robert Jeffress said. “That gives the government to the authority to do whatever, whether it’s assassination, capital punishment or evil punishment to quell the actions of evildoers like Kim Jong…
Para mí, los sueños de ansiedad representan un llamado al cambio. Pero el cambio es difícil. El cambio es difícil porque implica un trabajo arduo: un proceso de varios pasos que debe de estar rodeado de oración y discernimiento.
Financially struggling religious congregations, facing dwindling attendance and shrinking donations, are looking for other sources of revenue. Increasingly they are turning to their most valuable asset: location, location, location.
Evangelical Christians generally take a dim view of the Bill of Rights and freedom of speech, a newly published survey has found. The Barna Group uncovered those attitudes in a July study titled “What Makes America Great.” The survey asked…
Four years ago a line in Keith Getty’s song “In Christ Alone” sparked a debate over the meaning of the atonement. In nearly two months since the Southern Baptist Convention nearly failed to pass a resolution condemning the alt-right movement,…
God’s invitation is nothing less than a beckoning to receive what God alone can provide: grace. Grace receives us as we are and renews the human spirit. Grace reminds us of who we are created to be and supplies the enervating work of the Spirit that we might fully live.
It’s been a roller-coaster year for Christian author and speaker Jen Hatmaker. Hatmaker spoke with RNS about both mess and moxie, banned books and maintaining a healthy outlook on life.
Last month, I announced in an op-ed I was leaving the Southern Baptist Convention. Afterwards, my email was flooded with hundreds of responses from people all across the country. Here is a collection of their responses.
