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Joining the resistance: A 100-day counter-agenda for the Church

The Christian movement has never been in a cozy relationship with empire and remained a healthy and vital movement. Rightly spoken, “Jesus is Lord” is always a statement of subversion to the empire’s rule. And there are no easy or…

Cuban Christians and U.S. missions groups not too worried about post-Fidel era

The Nov. 25 death of Fidel Castro raised questions about the future of communism in Cuba. But Christianity’s future has also become a big question. Catholic and Protestant churches in the island nation have come far since Castro’s 1959 revolution….

Car damages America’s first Baptist church

The nation’s oldest Baptist church sustained damage when an out-of-control automobile came onto church property and crashed into a set of brownstone steps that had been in place for more than 300 years. A car descending a steep hill behind…

Trump picks climate-change denier, Southern Baptist to run the EPA

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt — a climate-change denier and Southern Baptist layman who sits on the board of trustees at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary — to run the Environmental Protection Agency. Trump’s transition team confirmed the…

Transitions for the week of 12.09.16

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Vince Blackerby, now serving as director of operations at Mountain Brook Baptist Church, Birmingham, Ala. Bill Booth, to…

Christianity in Britain: neither here nor there

The nervousness over Christmas, or even over expressing religious belief, is an absurd expression of a real void at the heart of soulless technocracy.

Seminaries start Black Lives Matter courses

As more African-Americans are killed at the hands of police, seminaries have begun to engage with the movement and investigate how their theology can be enlisted to improve race relations.

Am I not radical enough to be on the Professor Watchlist?

An open letter to the folks at Professor Watchlist: I am deeply angry, upset, frustrated and irritated with the aggregated list you all compiled of “dangerous professors” with “radical agendas.” Specifically, what deeply disturbs me about your list is that…

The ‘Water of Life’ in an age of water scarcity

It’s only a matter of time when two nations go to war not over access to oil, but to water. Bypass the debate about whether climate change is causing this — the reality, according to the United Nations, is that…

To help someone grieving at the holidays, avoid platitudes, experts say

The holidays are especially hard on those mourning the loss of loved ones and friends. And that suffering is often made worse by well-meaning-but-nervous friends who don’t know what to say — or not say — to those who are grieving. “A…

American Baptist leaders recall ‘other side’ of Pearl Harbor

As citizens across the nation mark the 75th anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, American Baptist leaders renewed attention to a lesser-known part of the story they believe offers lessons on racial prejudice still relevant for today. Two months…

Opposition to assisted suicide dies out

Most Americans, including 4 in 10 evangelicals, want doctors to help terminally ill patients end their lives.

An American experiment: 250 years of trying

10 reasons America is not a ‘Christian nation’

American Dominion traces deep roots of Seven Mountain Mandate

Lindsey Graham and the history of ‘widow’s succession’