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...
What has not happened yet is a Coptic act of revenge. Some fear that ISIS wants to turn Egypt into civil war-era Lebanon.
Barely a week after meeting with Pope Francis and promising to read the pontiff’s 184-page encyclical on climate change, President Trump earned scorn at the Vatican over his decision that the U.S. would exit the the Paris Agreement.
A very small home, a pastor’s Baptist identity and her evolving spiritual direction have found unlikely expression on the hit reality series “Tiny House Nation.”
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Alfonso Campbell III, to New Baptist Covenant, as interim director of programs and communications. Laurel Cluthe, to Holmeswood…
Two new studies find that many clergy are both ill-prepared and reluctant to fully engage in end-of-life conversations with terminally ill congregation members and their families.
FitzGerald, author of “The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America” and a highly regarded journalist, speaks about the past and future of evangelicalism as a religious and political force in American life.
The Department of Defense now recognizes 216 religions. The Armed Forces Chaplains Board says the changes were made to better measure the religious makeup of the military and thereby provide more targeted spiritual support for them.
What if campus carry is simply the most dangerous of an unceasing set of classroom distractions, existing alongside tweets, texts, Google, Wikipedia and Facebook, diversions that thwart both instruction and provocation, disengaging students from ideas that might form or re-form them?
It’s a fair question. It’s a good question. But it’s one which needs unpacking.
A religious liberty case that sparked controversy after two Southern Baptist Convention agencies filed legal briefs supporting the right of Muslims to build a mosque in New Jersey has been settled. Bernards Township, N.J., will pay $3.25 million in damages…
With zip-ties on their wrists, the Rev. William Barber and 31 other protesters were led away by police as supporters continued protest chants in support of health care for all.
Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega had been locked up in a federal prison outside Miami for less than a week when a package arrived with his name on it. Inside was a leather-bound copy of the Soul Winner’s New Testament.
