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...
For anyone who has spent any time on the religion beat, it doesn’t take long to realize it’s not exactly a rainbow coalition of culturally diverse reporters, or stories for that matter.
Donald Trump’s November victory and January inauguration cast many into despair about the nation’s future and into doubt about its values. But Trump’s presidency so far has also produced at least one upside: to inspire tens of thousands, if not…
Baptist Seminary of Kentucky, a theological education partner of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, has named longtime moderate Baptist educator and entrepreneur David Cassady as its second president. Cassady, 56, will succeed founding president Greg Earwood, who retired last year. He…
According to Reuters, the Religious Left is emerging as a political force in the Trump era. Oh, yeah? Is that like the time they were emerging in 2006? Or 2008? Or 2009? Or 2013?
We are living in a time in the United States when helping seems to be a zero sum game. If we tend to the well being of others, we are somehow diminished and our economic security is compromised. The erosion of compassion leads to a spiritual death, and the ability to inure ourselves to the needs of others threatens the common good.
Republicans and Democrats had competing motives for bringing up religious freedom during last week’s confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch.
I am held in contempt and suspicion on both sides of the Florida Straits. Here, I’m too Cuban to ever be American, and there, I’m too American to ever be a Cuban. The trauma of which I speak is never belonging.
Over the centuries, the Abrahamic faiths have found many things to fight over, and many modes of co-existence. A writer about Islam has just put forward a very different sort of proposal for terms on which Abraham’s children might co-exist.
Americans agree that national identity is in trouble but clearly disagree on what that identity is or might be. Nowhere is that more evident than in faith communities.
We’ve had decades of experiments with charter schools and vouchers. There are no resounding success stories.
Supporters of Trump’s budget are eager to restore the central role of faith-based organizations in serving the poor, but it’s not clear they can be an adequate substitute for government.
This disparate group, traditionally seen as lacking clout, has been propelled into political activism by Donald Trump’s policies on immigration, healthcare and social welfare, according to clergy members, activists and academics.
