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...
This sermon in recognition of Earth Day was preached on Easter at Madison Avenue Baptist Church in New York City. It was in the wee hours of Easter morning 1971 that I crawled out of bed in my Road Runner…
A Baptist church/state specialist said after oral arguments April 20 the U.S. Supreme Court should rule against a Missouri church seeking state aid to make its playground safer, citing Baptist history when colonial dissenters objected to paying taxes to support…
A clear majority of justices at the U.S. Supreme Court seemed troubled Wednesday by a Missouri grant program that bars state money from going to religious schools for playground improvement.
This Easter, the New York Times’ Sunday Review section was packed with op-ed columns related to American religion — more specifically American Christianity. Here’s a small summary. Nicholas Kristof interviewed former president and perpetual Baptist-Sunday-school-teacher Jimmy Carter (Carter even taught…
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Phil Carpenter, to Ravensworth Baptist Church, Annandale, Va., as music minister. Billy Craig, to First Baptist Church, Bassett,…
An Arkansas judge who also serves as a Baptist pastor defended his participation in a death penalty protest after issuing a court order barring the state from using an execution drug, saying his ruling on facts in a property dispute had…
After losing her faith, a former evangelical Christian felt adrift in the world. She then found solace in a radical technological philosophy — but its promises of immortality and spiritual transcendence soon seemed unsettlingly familiar.
For the past two years, Linda Livingstone has been dean of the George Washington University School of Business.
La versión en español está disponible aquí. Last month was the spring board meeting of the Latina Leadership Institute, the organization that I co-founded, and which I serve as executive director. A few days prior to this event, I sat…
An English version is available here. El mes pasado tuve la reunión de primavera del Instituto de Liderazgo para Latinas, organización que cofundé y donde sirvo como directora ejecutiva. Unos días antes de este evento, me senté en mi oficina…
It’s not only human reality on the line, and not only sentient life. In the testimony of Scripture, all creation is sentient, capable of responding to the Creator’s purpose, promise and provision.
More than three years after being pulled out of line by Homeland Security at Nashville International Airport while waiting to board a flight to Germany and being told he was wanted for murder, former Southern Baptist minister Richard Shahan can…
