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...
Immersed in church life, Judy Skeen still felt disconnected from her soul. Now she teaches religion, biblical studies, spiritual formation, economic justice and faith at a university. And horses help her do it.
Membership in the Southern Baptist Convention declined for the 10th straight year, although at a slower pace than last year, while baptisms dropped to the lowest level in 70 years, according to statistics released in advance of the 2017 SBC…
The head of the Southern Baptist Convention public policy and religious liberty arm blasted Sen. Bernie Sanders’ grilling of a potential White House official over comments about Islam. Sanders (I-Vt.) said during a June 7 nomination hearing that Trump nominee…
Pick your arena — Calvinism versus Arminianism, moral liberty versus determinism, Rush’s “Freewill” versus Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” — there’s quite a bit of conversation in the scientific community these days about what philosophers have debated for centuries. That…
Authorities say a bus carrying dozens of people from a Baptist church has crashed near Atlanta, killing one person and injuring several others.
Falwell said Thursday that he is still part of a higher education initiative for President Donald Trump but said the initiative is different from the group he had been tapped to lead in late January.
What are “sincerely held religious beliefs?” Nobody really knows.
The precipitous dropoff in CCM sales has left Christian labels and artists staring into the void alongside their pastors, scratching their heads, wondering where they went wrong.
A devout, Christian man was told that he was going to be given an opportunity of a lifetime: he was going to get the chance to see God. He did everything he could to prepare for the occasion. He spent…
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Megan Gant, to Jersey Baptist Church, Lexington, N.C., as family minister. Dan Gaudinier, to First Baptist Church, Augusta,…
Former St. Louis United Way CEO Gary Dollar has been nominated as 28th moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Dollar, a former member of the CBF Governing Board, will be voted on as moderator-elect when the 1,800-church Fellowship meets June…
Vice President Mike Pence proclaimed President Trump a faithful supporter of Catholic values at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, an event that sought to set aside any friction between the president and the pope.
