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...
It is hard to imagine a time or place more opposed to the gospel than fifth-century Ireland.
The leader of a Texas civil-liberties organization formed to counter the Religious Right speculated in a radio interview May 27 that the state’s child welfare crisis helped boost a controversial bill headed to the governor’s desk allowing state-funded providers of…
The human penchant for worrying about the state of morality is ageless. In the 1950s, the popularity of rolled-up jeans, slicked back hair and rock’n’roll music frightened Americans so much that many feared juvenile delinquency would be the ruin of…
Instead of building a church, Answers in Genesis is sharing its teachings through a controversial biblical theme park designed to attract believers and nonbelievers alike.
The chilly relationship between mainline Protestantism and the popular marketplace has become a feature of the mainline’s self-understanding. The more that evangelicals and Pentecostals dominate megachurches and TV, the more that mainline pastors seem disinclined to enter the fray.
Preaching through Lent and Eastertide is a daunting task, and pastors give their best energies to understanding the remarkable ways in which God has reset the whole horizon for humanity through the testing, death and resurrection of Jesus, and the…
On Saturday, little Bobby walked down to the corner store. He had no money. But he did have his bookbag and, even at just 9 years old, some practice at getting his hunger sated without the aid of money. On…
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship announced budget cuts May 26 reducing the number of missionaries on the field and eliminating two senior level positions at CBF headquarters in Decatur, Ga.
Some white supremacists have turned to an ancient religion known as Odinism and in at least six cases since 2001, professed racist Odinists have been convicted of domestic terrorism attacks, according to the Center for Investigative Reporting.
Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Coptic Christians in southern Egypt early Friday, killing at least 26 people, according to a church official, in the latest deadly assault on the country’s embattled religious minority.
What if our struggles as aspiring minimalists, Millennials, middle-aged, and middle-class Christians are rooted not in the fact that we didn’t take the message of the Church seriously enough, but that we took the message we received too seriously.
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Seth Behrens, to First Baptist Church, Mason City, Neb., as young adult pastor. Glen D. Bohannon, to Walnut…
