Congress has a 9% confidence rating among Americans, according to recent data from Gallup. And yet, it’s more ethical than mainstream evangelicalism’s institution of complementarian marriage. Discussion about addressing sexual ethics on Capitol Hill has grown over the past few months...
The Texas state senate voted July 25 to advance a controversial “bathroom bill” backed by social conservative groups including the Southern Baptists of Texas Convention.
His agenda stalled and his party divided, President Donald Trump veered into the nation’s simmering culture wars by announcing plans to ban transgender people from serving in the military.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES David Cox, to Florence Baptist Church, Forest City, N.C., as minister of youth and instructional technology. Travis Crocker,…
Many experts — including national health officials, ministers and domestic missionaries, health care chaplains and law enforcement officers — describe the epidemic as among the worst on record.
The focus on limiting medications prescribed for acute pain — such as that experienced after dental or medical procedures — is bleeding over into the way many doctors are treating chronic pain, too.
They are individuals who, for the most part, are already trailblazers in a field where historically black women are rarely considered authorities on topics from preaching, to pastoral care, to systematic theology, to biblical hermeneutics.
A Southern Baptist Convention entity cannot hide behind the separation of church and state to avoid liability for wrongful termination and defamation, claims the latest argument filed in a dispute in federal court.
An investigation has found that Word of Faith Fellowship used its two church branches in Latin America’s largest nation to siphon a steady flow of young laborers to its 35-acre compound in rural North Carolina.
In a 21-10 vote, the Texas Senate gave its backing to a bill that would regulate bathroom use in schools and buildings overseen by cities and counties and nix parts of local nondiscrimination ordinances.
Our times call for fresh thinking on the economics of ministry, which is a constellation of issues. Educational debt, ministry compensation, rising health care costs, diminished congregations and a culture of credit all conspire to make the question “can the church and the ministry afford each other” more challenging.
Steve Chalke says in a new video resource that the message that humans are inherently bad isn’t the only way to interpret the story of Adam and Eve’s disobedience in the Garden of Eden as told in Genesis 3.
In many places, evangelicals and Catholics are competing for the same souls. I can’t seem to get anyone interested in talking about evangelical proselytization of lapsed Catholics. But I’m surprised it’s not more of a strain on their “surprising ecumenism.”
