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...
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.
Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.
A theme of Christian reflections on the first nuclear explosions is that their murderous flashes form a grotesque counterpoint to the Transfiguration, when Jesus appeared to his disciples in a blinding flash of light.
Liberty University graduates angered by Jerry Falwell Jr.’s continued loyalty to Donald Trump say they will return their diplomas to the evangelical Christian school he oversees as president.
Less than two weeks after a deadly white-supremacist rally, leaders of R.E. Lee Memorial Church found themselves back at the table, with some again pressing the issue of a name change.
The Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, a theological education partner of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, will establish offices and begin offering a full master of divinity degree on the campus of Simmons College of Kentucky.
Our experience of a total eclipse should illumine a spirit of contemplation as we marvel at God’s handiwork and the perdurance of an expanding universe. It also urges us to find ever more constructive ways to hold both science and faith in our heart. Holding them together makes for an informed sense of wonder.
If a life can have a crystallizing moment, for Jim Graham that 1993 meeting was it, discovering that his father might have been a Catholic priest, rather than John Graham, the distant man who raised him with scarcely a kind…
