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Letter to the Editor: Failure to communicate

Dear Editor: Concerning the analysis article “How A College Assignment Became the Latest Battle in the Culture Wars,” I first heard about the controversy from a national news report featuring an interview with the student in question after reading about…

What will we leave our children?

Every generation faces the same quiet question, although few pause long enough to consider it fully. When our children look back on the choices we made, will they see stewardship or convenience? Will they inherit communities made stronger by foresight…

The gays who put out a fleece

How far would you go to let God direct your steps? Two young adults met in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in fall 2019. Both were American; both from conservative evangelical Christian stock. They had been introduced because they both worked in…

The health case for church attendance

The most common argument for religion in modern times is a utilitarian one: People are social animals who need religion and mediating institutions for a happy and healthy social organization. For better or worse, the moral cause and classical arguments…

These ‘regular people’ promote a dangerous view of marriage and gender

“I’m just a regular guy,” Speaker of the House Mike Johnson told Katie Miller with his wife, Kelly, sitting next to him for the Katie Miller Podcast. “We’re simple people,” Johnson later added as the couple discussed everything from how…

When book bans enter the classroom, students lose

On a recent trip to my public library, as I was scanning my books, a young boy next to me asked the librarian behind the desk how many books our library branch has. The answer was in the tens of…

BSK gets new Baugh grant for Institute for Black Church Studies

The Institute for Black Church Studies at BSK Seminary has received a new round of funding from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation that will continue and expand the work begun in 2021. The new $100,000 grant for 2026 follows…

The power of active learning

Resilience rarely announces itself. Sometimes it shows up quietly — in the form of an 18-year-old freshman named CoMarion, standing outside Arkansas Baptist College without a car, without certainty, but with a deep desire to learn beyond the classroom. His…

How a college assignment became the latest battle in the culture wars

In 2014, psychologists Jennifer Jewell and Christia Spears Brown published a study in social development titled “Relations Among Gender Typicality, Peer Relations, and Mental Health During Early Adolescence.” Eleven years later, OU psychology student Samantha Fulnecky penned a two-page assignment…

Ministry jobs

Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…

Caring for ourselves during change-making conversations

Here we are, more than a month after the release of my “Non-Disclosure” podcast. And now that we’ve had some time to digest the lengthy, heavy and grief-filled material, I’d like to process some of that with you. The No….

Bishop Budde writes about courage

Many came to know Bishop Mariann Budde when she gave a passionate plea to President Donald Trump at the presidential prayer inauguration: “May I ask you to have mercy.” Budde serves as bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Washington, D.C….

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?