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Pastor says Trump’s evangelical advisers giving cover for racism

The African-American pastor who initiated this summer’s Southern Baptist Convention resolution denouncing the alt-right urged other members of Donald Trump’s evangelical advisory board to step down in protest of the president’s remarks after the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va.

Four questions every stewardship committee should be asking but probably isn’t

Many questions are being explored as these faithful teams attempt to craft a working budget for the year ahead. Here are four questions they would do well to ask.

In the South, a new helping hand: Muslim disaster relief teams

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.

Critics said Trump’s ‘religious liberty’ order does nothing. The administration’s lawyers seem to agree

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.

It’s time to admit it: Those jobs aren’t coming back

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.

The downside of integration for black Christians

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.

Speak up. Don’t pay someone else to do it for you

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.

Transitions for the week of 08.25.17

Staff changes, congregational news and more from across the nation.

How Christianity has dealt with nuclear weapons

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.

Return-your-diploma campaign gives voice to disgruntled Liberty grads

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.

This is the church where Robert E. Lee declared himself a sinner. Should it keep his name?

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.

Historically black college to become home to CBF seminary

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.

ICE agents are least-trained law enforcement in America

Coalition campaign seeks to ‘Melt ICE’

Hegseth’s testosterone testing plays into MAGA mythology

In conversation with George Mason