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...
Fifteen strangers are gathered for supper. We share from a common table where everyone has offered a little dish. Around the country, thousands of others are doing the same thing. These multi-hued, boundary-crossing gatherings are happening thanks to a call…
I can hold this paradox without question: I never would choose cancer, but I wouldn’t trade this experience. The richness of God’s infusion into our lives more than compensated for the agony.
Religious partnerships have made meaningful contributions to the defeat of prejudices and hostility in Cuba. The recent actions of the Trump administration won’t deter these relationships, nor will they reduce their cooperative work.
It was important for churches to have something to put into the collection plate, and it was important that it be cash that people actually possessed — not a promise to pay someday on their credit card accounts.
The bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Springfield, Ill., is calling on priests there to deny Holy Communion and funeral rites to people in same-sex unions unless they show “some signs of repentance” for their relationships before death.
With their emphasis on water in baptism, Baptists, like other Christians, have the language and ancient practices that are helpful in bringing people into a more meaningful relationship with the elements that give life.
Word has been received of the recent death of Sarah Frances Anders, a trailblazer for Southern Baptist women in ministry and past moderator of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Anders, a longtime sociology professor at Louisiana College, died June 8 at…
Come by our booth in the Exhibit Hall at the General Assembly to pick up your tickets! This year’s Friends of BNG Dinner during the CBF General Assembly will feature a creative approach to the faith-based news organization’s emphasis on…
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Jim Ailor, to Rhoadesville (Va.) Baptist Church, as interim preacher. Kevin Allen, to First Baptist Church, Stephenville, Texas,…
The new rule is part of a 10-step screening process first tested in a pilot project launched last year.
Franklin followed his father into the pulpit and succeeded him as head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. But Franklin’s temperament and tone — more uncompromising than Billy’s in his prime and later years — are closer to his mother’s.
Substance abuse is a complex issue because pain is multilayered, taking on parallel and distinct configurations in every human being. Can persons enmeshed in pain and Percocet feel safe enough in our congregations to seek physical, mental and, yes, spiritual assistance?
