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...
Over the past half-century since the Johnson Amendment became law, a grand total of just one church has lost its special tax status — and that after an episode of blatant electioneering.
Ask Graham biographers and religion scholars today who will be the next Billy Graham, here’s their answer: Nobody.
Trump’s gesture toward his religious base appeared to falter as a matter of policy, and perhaps as politics: Social conservatives who had been expecting more expressed disappointment, and the order itself seems unlikely to have much impact on current law.
An Arkansas judge under fire for participating in a death penalty protest after issuing an order blocking an execution says critics seeking his impeachment want to infringe on his rights as a Baptist pastor to express his religious beliefs. The…
Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Rhonda Blevins, to Chapel by the Sea, Clearwater Beach, Fl., as pastor. She comes from the Cooperative Baptist…
A Baylor University fraternity hosted a racist “Mexican-themed” party on Saturday night, prompting a Sunday afternoon school statement condemning the event and a vociferous student protest.
President Trump is set to sign an executive order on Thursday that aims to relax restrictions on political activity by religious groups without threatening their tax-exempt status.
My “HIS 502 Intro to Christian History” class took their final examination this week: Three essay questions, choose 2, three hours. One of the questions was as follows: Jesus said: “At the resurrection, they will neither marry nor be given…
Faith leaders across the country and in Texas wrote letters May 3 urging state legislators to reject proposed “bathroom bills” similar to North Carolina’s controversial HB2, a measure partially repealed due to pressure from economic boycotts. Clergy gathered Wednesday morning…
Christian denominations once heavily concentrated in Europe or North America have expanded worldwide to the point that Global South believers now predominate. Baptists represent the conspicuous exception to this rule. They remain heavily concentrated in one Global North region.
Genetic evidence suggesting that humans descend not from an individual pair but from a large population changed the way Scot McKnight interprets the first three chapters of Genesis.
The notion that men will be distracted by breastfeeding may say more about the over-sexualization of women’s bodies than about the alleged inappropriateness of breastfeeding in public.
