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...
As a minister, I’ve noticed that even the previously dependable Easter attendance bump has become not so dependable. It seems that I used to see more in town visitors or members on the margins who only come on holidays, but…
Church leaders said they will not hold Easter celebrations in mourning for 45 Coptic Christians killed in twin bombings of churches. Leaders said celebrations will only be limited to the liturgical prayers “without any festive manifestations.”
The scapegoat ritual practiced by ancient Israel functioned, I suppose, as a symbolical representation of the collective cleansing and forgiveness of the covenant people by God. Whether it was a healthy ritual or a toxic ritual for ancient Israel I…
Lawmakers voted 24-4 to let a Birmingham church establish a law enforcement department despite critics’ concerns it could be used to cover up crimes.
Christian conservatives who defend the rights of Muslims have come under attack by their ideological brethren.
Advocates for gays and lesbians serving in the military are displeased with President Donald’s Trump’s decision to replace the first openly gay Secretary of the Army with a Southern Baptist state lawmaker who has sponsored or supported legislation criticized as…
The white supremacist sentenced to death in federal court for the 2015 shooting massacre at a historic black church in South Carolina pleaded guilty to separate state murder charges.
The week begins with a parade and ends with “stations” visited. Baptists do not usually speak about “stations of the cross,” for we, like our Anabaptist forebears, are a bit suspicious about anything too Catholic. (On balance, the Anabaptists were…
Hosting Seder meals during Holy Week has become deeply entrenched among some Christian congregations. But both supporters and opponents of the practice say there needs to be careful reflection about intentions before engaging in it.
Prosecutors have dropped the case against a longtime Southern Baptist minister accused of murdering his wife in 2013. Richard Shahan, former children and families’ pastor and facilities director at First Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., was arrested New Year’s Day…
The disciple is one who refuses “the luxury of the onlooker,” but chooses, instead, the role of accomplice in the consecrated conspiracy of life against the reign of death.
The response of organised Christianity to events in Syria has been every bit as confused and ideologically driven as the response of most other observers.
