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Did Robert Jeffress contribute to SBC decline with pro-war, pro-Trump statement?

As Christian denominations continue their downward spiral, some experts say the rapid descent is caused by the increasing politicization of the church and the erosion of church-state separation. A Gallup poll released last month found that the percentage of American…

What I learned from our seminary’s conflict about hosting Tim Keller

At times, the cost of theological diversity is painfully clear.

North Korea releases Canadian pastor sentenced to life in prison

Rim Hyon Su, also known as Hyeon Soo Lim, was accused by the state of using religion as a ruse to overthrow the government. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in December 2015.

City says church can’t rent space to community groups

A zoning crackdown in a Silicon Valley neighborhood has a dozen community groups searching for new venues and threatens the future of a 124-year-old American Baptist church that depends on rental income for about a third of its annual budget….

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…

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