The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist

Jefferson knew that religious struggles had caused “rivers of blood” to flow all over the world. He hoped Americans would be spared this carnage, and he did his best to set us on that path.

It requires great subtlety to express genuine love for one’s land, one’s people, one’s culture and, at the same time, recognize the devastation, at home and abroad, done by our hand or at least in our name.

Elijah Brown’s name will be presented to the Baptist World Alliance General Council on July 7 for a final vote.

In a major shake-up of the Vatican’s administration, Pope Francis replaced Catholicism’s top theologian, a conservative German cardinal who has been at odds with the pontiff’s vision of a more inclusive church.

Religion has played an outsized role in U.S. history and politics, but it’s one that has often gone unrecognized in U.S. museums. That’s changing a the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History.

In pioneering a doctrineless, moralized Christianity, Franklin was helping to develop one of the most common forms of spirituality in modern America.