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...
“Lord, if you had been here my brother would not have died.” That’s what Jesus’ friends Mary and Martha said to him on separate encounters after their brother Lazarus had expired in Bethany where Jesus was nowhere to be found.
It’s not merely God’s dream that we love and serve each other, but that we also accept our own belovedness. Footwashing, then, is sacramental, revealing God’s desire for creation to care and be cared for.
What began as an effort at interreligious and historical understanding morphed into a tradition for many churches’ Holy Week celebrations, so that in some settings the Seder has become a form of Christian worship.
Muslim-American fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad made history last summer as the first U.S. Olympian to compete wearing a hijab, but Muslims aren’t the only ones worried about immodest attire in women’s sports. Kara Barnett, pastor’s wife at Faith Baptist Church of…
“Faith-based films” made by “faith-based filmmakers” may make a handsome living marketing that way, but it will necessarily shut down attempts to reach outside of the faith community.
A female Baptist pastor and a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leader say the “Billy Graham Rule” — in the news since revelations that Vice President Mike Pence never eats alone with a woman other than his wife — has serious implications for women…
Maria Swearingen and her wife, Sally Sarratt will be putting their skills to good use in their new roles as co-senior pastors of Calvary Baptist Church in Washington.
In a new memoir Macy Halford considers the impact that Oswald Chambers’ book has had on her, and her experience in the disparate worlds of the New Yorker magazine and her Southern Baptist background and belief.
I want my son to receive the gift that comes from being a part of a family and a community of people who practice the ancient art of (sometimes foolishly) depending upon a divine force rather than the invisible hand of the stock market for worth, direction, hope and stability.
An attorney defending Mississippi’s controversial law allowing state employees to refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and various businesses to deny services to LGBT individuals claimed in federal court April 3 that individuals challenging the statute should not…
Within 2o years, the number of Muslim babies being born is expected to surpass Christian births — though there will still be more Christians in the world.
Parents expect a lot from youth ministers. Above all they want them to host safe gatherings where their kids can hang out with friends. At the same time they want their youth to learn how to say no to drugs,…
