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...
I didn’t know about the saints until my thirties but I came by my ignorance honestly. As an Evangelical we didn’t talk about the saints.
Vancouver pastor: How the church can model civil discourse amid controversy.
Baptists were among 99 religious and denominational organizations April 4 urging members of Congress to maintain a law that prohibits churches and other tax-exempt organizations from endorsing or opposing political candidates. The Alliance of Baptists, American Baptist Churches USA, Association…
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It can be difficult to lift a passage from its context 2,000 or more years removed and wield it appropriately.
Every week as I stand in the pulpit of the Riverside Church where Dr. King called for an end to racism, poverty and militarism in America, I fight the temptation to despair. In 50 years, have we made no progress at all? In this place where the call to justice has gone out again and again it’s abundantly clear that our moral crisis is deeper than ever.
Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Businesses may purchase a post in the…
Because there is no liberal faith subculture, there aren’t strong liberal faith interest groups, and because there aren’t liberal faith interest groups, the secular left leaders don’t feel a need to cater to the demographic.
Many Christians — particularly evangelicals — are drawn to Jewish ritual out of a desire to practice the Christianity of Jesus’ early followers, as they understand it.
Nothing in the program guide suggested I might slip through a time portal during worship. I’m sure of it; I would have noticed. Sure, the theme of the 34th annual convocation for Baptist Women in Ministry of North Carolina, “Storied…
At QC Family Tree, we regularly get the question from congregations, “How can we be good partners for your mission?” The question often, but not always, comes to us from the same social locations that my wife and I, the…
A few years back — 10 or 15 or so — a small church in Southern California noticed its big holiday productions were feeling a bit stale, especially to younger people. “The old guard was putting on a show for the new people,…
