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...
Matthew Vines’ calling, it seems, is to a ministry of the improbable, if not the impossible: convincing the world’s Christians to embrace gay people. Maybe so. But he is undaunted — and confident. “The global church will be fully LGBTQ…
A leading Nigerian theologian believes the real danger to Christianity in Africa is in the church.
Why is the Bible Belt a hotbed of capital punishment? Oklahoma representative Mike Ritze, a Southern Baptist deacon and co-author of a popular pro-death penalty measure in the state, offered his own answer. “Because of our faith-based population, we believe there…
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…
