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

As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have...

Psychologists have a name for the emotional impact of a Trump presidency. Pastors offer a cure.

Pastors are seeing a surge in church members, colleagues and friends emotionally battered from months of relentless dread generated by national politics. Psychologists have even coined a term for it: Trump anxiety. Julie Pennington-Russell has seen plenty of it. Recently,…

Like father, like son: Black activists tag-team preach on Father’s Day

About 15 years ago, the Rev. Otis Moss III invited his father, the Rev. Otis Moss Jr., to tag-team preach with him on Father’s Day. An interview with the on that tradition and the state of the black church in…

Before criticizing the SBC on race, look in the mirror

Before wagging self-righteous fingers at the Southern Baptist Convention for nearly failing to pass a no-brainer resolution denouncing the “alt-right,” we should consider carefully whether we are worthy of casting the first stone.

Former Southern Baptist youth pastor, now LGBTQ activist, booted from annual SBC meeting

Brandan Robertson said he has yet to become fully accustomed to the feelings of public condemnation and rejection that come with his work as a bisexual Christian seeking LGBTQ inclusion in evangelical churches. Robertson, 24 and a former Southern Baptist…

Violence, atonement and racism

Editor’s note: This piece by Steve Harmon and Curtis Freeman prompted a reply from two Southern Baptist writers, Lucas Stamps and Matthew Emerson. Freeman and Harmon are continuing the conversation started below with a follow-up piece here. Why would a…

Returning Iraqi Christians to their persecutors

The Trump administration is breaking its pledge to protect Iraqi Christians, sending them back to their oppressors. Will the U.S. church remain silent?

Church planting and the gospel of gentrification

Are we seeking the “welfare of the city,” or just our own?

Is an attack on one an attack on all?

The brutal consequences of our nation’s gun fetish.

White racist ‘alt-right’ denounced by Southern Baptists: That’s a win for Arlington, Texas, pastor

Pastor Dwight McKissic of Arlington won this week, and so did Southern Baptists everywhere.

Losing Jesus: My lament and call today as a progressive pastor

At some point in progressive Baptist history we finally started fighting the right fights, but we forgot why we fought them. Claiming Jesus and the resurrection suddenly seemed too evangelical and we tried to distance ourselves as far as possible from the evangelicals.

Enough ‘Virgin in the Volcano’ theology

You can subscribe to the doctrine of the Holy Trinity or you can subscribe to the doctrine of penal substitutionary atonement, but you can’t subscribe to both.

In annual meeting do-over, Southern Baptists denounce ‘alt-right’ white supremacy

The Southern Baptist Convention condemned white supremacy in a resolution adopted 24 hours after a mostly white resolutions committee initially rebuffed a black pastor’s appeal to allow the issue to make it to the floor.

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war