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 ran into someone the other day who had just returned from the Women’s March in Washington and she had with her a poster from the march. As she unrolled it to show me she said, “I’m so glad I…
A demonstration at a Baptist church in the nation’s capital Jan. 22 had an effect the protestors may not have expected — a strengthening of the congregation’s long commitment to social justice. A small group stormed through Calvary Baptist Church…
A protest movement that began with a grandmother in Hawaii and manufacturing entrepreneur in New York City meeting on Facebook the night after Donald Trump’s surprise election hit the ground Jan. 21, fueled by more than 2 million people around…
Donald Trump heard a sermon last Friday morning from a Southern Baptist pastor who has history of inflammatory remarks about Muslims, Mormons, Catholics and gays.
Politics drew hundreds of thousands to the Women’s March on Washington Jan. 21. But many said they were also compelled by their faith. | BNG is developing a story on the Women’s March, to be released today.
Religious, school and business leaders in two Texas cities were stunned to learn that the mystery guest they were scheduled to meet was Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. “You could have knocked me over with a feather” when the 32-year-old billionaire…
The Southern Baptist Convention joined Catholic, Jewish, Mormon and other religious groups in a recent brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision allowing transgender students in public schools to use the restroom of their choice…
Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day kicked off with controversy over a Southern Baptist preacher selected to preach at a private prayer service for the president-elect and his family shortly before taking the oath of office. Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist…
As an African American woman, I find the 2016 campaign — and now the 2017 inauguration — doubly painful.
The outspoken and often-controversial pastor of First Baptist Dallas, Robert Jeffress, will preach at a private service before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday. BNG story about this event: Controversial Southern Baptist preaches Inauguration Day sermon PREVIOUS STORY: Evangelicals lay hands on…
What does the election of Donald J. Trump mean for religious liberty? As with many important issues, President-elect Trump has no significant record or concrete positions on the topic.
This week, I was moved to read two very different books. First, inspired by the MLK holiday weekend, I read a collection of Dr. King’s prayers. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, I felt a personal need to…
