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Transitions for the week of 08.11.17

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. Correction Ginter Park Baptist Church in Richmond, Va., has not sold its church building to Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond,…

Patriotism and the Church: Is it too much to ask churches to be careful?

When 53 percent of pastors agree that sometimes their congregations love America more than God that should be sounding alarm bells.

On North Korea, Christians should dial back the bellicosity

Neither the Bible nor Christian tradition supports a prominent Baptist pastor’s assertion that God has specifically ordained Donald Trump to “take out” the North Korean regime.

Trump is lying. We have to keep listening

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.

Flaming heretics and anathemas galore

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.

Prepare your jump

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.

Mormon church leader excommunicated for 1st time in decades

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.

‘God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un,’ evangelical adviser says

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…