It is midnight. Not the kind of midnight measured by clocks. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that lingers long after the sun has risen. We all know this midnight. It is the midnight of the marriage...
As part of her work, Anders documented the slow but steady advancement of women into Baptist pulpits. In 1983, she discovered that there were 14 women serving as Southern Baptist pastors. By 1993, that number had grown to 51.
Millennials are more generous with their money in some cases than older Americans, a new report says. The study by the Barna Group examined motivations behind giving to various causes, including family needs, charitable giving and serving God. The findings…
A black gospel violinist. A Puerto Rican receiving a historic selection for a top board position. A fiery, 60-year-old Native American woman preacher. A Korean-born man newly appointed as the director of a doctor of ministry program. A young adult…
One of the pressing concerns of 21st-century individual and congregational spiritual life is the question of depth. To be blunt, there isn’t much. Study after study has revealed the sad truth that much of what we call faith and commitment…
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.
When I stepped onto her hall, I could see her slippered feet just outside the door frame of her room. In her wheelchair, she rocked heel to toe, toe to heel, back and forth and back again. “Hey, there,” I…
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.
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is trying to do what few if any mainstream religious bodies have been able to do — disagree about homosexuality without splitting.
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.
Christians in the United States are rightly concerned about the rise of extremist groups like the alt-right, but they shouldn’t be so surprised, public theologian Brian McLaren said June 29.
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.
