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...
Pope Francis is allowing all priests to absolve the faithful of the “grave sin” of abortion, extending indefinitely the special permission he had granted for the duration of the just-ended Holy Year of Mercy.
As both pastor and nonprofit executive director, the Rev. Faith Fowler is known for her outreach to the poor. Her latest effort: a village of tiny homes that will allow people to become stakeholders in their neighborhood and in their…
On Thursday, Nov. 10, members of my community in Greensboro, N.C., gathered at Greensboro’s Koury Convention Center for the 50th annual dinner of the National Conference for Community and Justice. The NCCJ works to end bias, bigotry and racism in…
I did not vote for the president-elect. However, I’ve benefited from a system and a mindset that did elect him. With campaign promises to be tough on crime, deport illegal immigrants, and bring an end to Muslim religion-inspired terrorism, our…
Stan Dotson didn’t mean to start an international incident when he wrote a book about his 11-month stay in Cuba, but his publisher said Nov. 18 the matter has been resolved and Cuba: A Day In the Life should be…
For decades, no Baptist state convention showed stronger resolve in defending historic tenets like soul freedom and autonomy of the local church than Texas. With this week’s vote declaring churches that welcome and affirm LGBT people “out of harmonious cooperation,” some moderate and progressive Baptists are wondering openly where along the way they lost their beloved Baptist General Convention of Texas.
Faced with the embarrassment of having helped elect Donald Trump to the presidency, some conservative Christian leaders have begun to argue that evangelical support for Trump was far lower than the commonly reported 81 percent.
When you speak out in a moment of congregational crisis because what you believe is more important than the money you make keeping quiet, you give reason to believe in a God who would rather alienate God’s self than other…
Two weeks ago, Alec Baldwin and Kate McKinnon broke from their characters as presidential candidates on Saturday Night Live and spoke directly to their audience saying, “We cannot tell you how to cast your vote, but we can ask you:…
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When evangelical starts to sound like very bad news for very many Americans, it has drifted far from its roots. A prophetic consensus has emerged that U.S. evangelicalism is irreducibly linked with white privilege.
The exchange lasted just a few seconds, too quick for Natasha Nkhama to register anger, fear or rage. “He sort of shoved me off the sidewalk and he said … ‘no n—–s allowed on the sidewalk,’” Nkhama recounted.
