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...
For one immigrant, challenges have included a treacherous journey north, an uncertain destination and a devastating auto accident that left him using a wheelchair. Luis Juárez has overcome them all.
Annie Peguero was trying to soothe her agitated 19-month-old baby in church on Sunday when she did what she often does — she nursed her. But her efforts to calm her daughter caused a stir in the sanctuary.
Why were these independent churches so effective in appealing to China’s burgeoning middle class? And how do they survive despite government efforts to rein in religious groups not part of government-run places of worship?
Jesus, it seems, could see women as people.
To hope is not some wishful desire but an expected joy that God will bring about God’s purposes. Jürgen Moltmann argued for a hope based in a God who keeps promises, a God who is a step ahead of humanity…
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has apologized for a photo which has circulated on Twitter of five white faculty members posing as black gang members. The photo has been criticized as racist.
Do powerful people read Niebuhr because he tells them to act with humility and caution? Or is it because Niebuhr tells them that moral men have to play hardball?
After a rousing speech at last summer’s Democratic National Convention, Barber might have become the president’s pastor. Instead, he’s now the face of a progressive Christian protest movement that’s taking its fight from North Carolina to the White House.
Prejean’s work opposing capital punishment was captured in her book and film Dead Man Walking, and now she’s speaking out against a spate of planned killings.
Tired of all the vitriol on social media? Baffled by the intensity of others’ (and your own) emotional responses to hot button political issues? It turns out recent brain research and sociological studies offer hints as to why negativity reigns….
The chair-elect of the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists joined 74 other faith leaders and religious and civil-rights organizations in a legal brief filed April 24 supporting a former transgender funeral home employee in Michigan who claimed she was…
In the corner of the public square where people of faith cluster, debate rages on whether it’s possible to engage a militantly secular age, or if retreat is, borrowing Leonard Cohen’s immortal phrase, “the only engine of survival.”
