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...
The Netflix series is troubling and difficult to watch. Watch it anyway. The show’s producers say they intended to create an intense viewing experience, one that would prompt conversation.
The film mixes real stories of Christians and others who have suffered at the hands of ISIS with the insidious insinuation that such persecution is at the heart of the Muslim faith.
Trustees of Baptist-affiliated Samford University are poised to vote on an officially sanctioned gay-straight alliance recommended by students and faculty, setting up potential conflict with the Alabama Baptist Convention. The convention’s State Board of Missions met behind closed doors May…
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Sean Allen, concluding his tenure as pastor of Greystone Baptist Church, Raleigh, N.C. John Jay Alvaro, to First…
President Donald Trump has decided not to immediately move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a senior White House official said, violating a campaign promise but avoiding a provocation that could drive Palestinians away from peace talks.
The national park wouldn’t let him collect rocks for research.
In the new China, “churches and religious societies provide a sense of community, a sense of belonging, a sense of being in a group of people who share your values.”
Do numerical, financial and cultural declines compel churches to seek expanded assistance from the secular government? As culture-privilege deteriorates, does government-privilege become increasingly essential?
The longtime pastor of a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church has been named next executive director of Baptist History and Heritage Society. John Finley, pastor of First Baptist Church in Savannah, Ga., for 23 years, announced May 3 he is stepping…
Graduations are memorable and joyful experiences. Graduations are sad, too, however, as I realize that these students will not walk the halls and the classrooms of the university again on a daily basis. So I find myself with mixed feelings of celebration as well as grief.
Las graduaciones son experiencias memorables y gozosas. Sin embargo, las graduaciones también son tristes, ya que me doy cuenta de que este grupo de estudiantes no volverá a caminar a diario los pasillos y aulas de la universidad. A veces experimento el mismo sentimiento de duelo en ambientes más informales cuando hablo en conferencias o talleres en diferentes lugares alrededor del mundo.
In John 10:9 Jesus says, “I am the gate. Whoever enters by me will be saved, and will come in and go out and find pasture.” What does it mean to say that Jesus is the gate through which one…
