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Texas Baptist Men assumes long-term disaster recovery duties and employees from BGCT

Texas Baptist Men has assumed the responsibility for providing long-term disaster response from the Baptist General Convention of Texas, TBM announced this week. The change went into effect Nov. 1. TBM has provided shorter term disaster relief ministries for more…

Healing Christianity’s 500-year rift is worth a try

It’s embarrassing for a faith that wants to teach love, peace and harmony to find itself still divided by disagreements that produced hundreds of years of war and violence.

Pope Francis says women will never be Roman Catholic priests

The Pontiff’s reply to a journalist asking about church’s position is not a change in stance, but will disappoint advocates of change.

After crisis, what’s next for Charlotte?

Where do we go from here? That’s a question I keep hearing, in one form or another, around Charlotte, N.C. Now that we’ve had our crisis, the protests exploding out of the killing of yet another African-American male by police…

Las redes sociales y la comunión de los santos/as

An English version is available here. El primer fin de semana de noviembre muchas iglesias observarán el domingo memorial (Memorial Sunday), un día para recordar y celebrar a aquellas personas que nos han precedido. Este hecho me llevó a reflexionar…

Church-based recreation facilities and programs increasing

Being healthy is a requirement for Christians who see their bodies as temples of the Holy Spirit. But there is an additional, more down-to-earth, motivation for connecting faith and fitness, says Matt Rollins, minister of spiritual formation and outreach at…

BWA lauds German church for denouncing Martin Luther’s anti-Semitism

The leader of the Baptist World Alliance has lauded the Evangelical Church in Germany for its courageous stance in sustaining and nurturing the Christian faith in the European nation that gave birth to the Reformation — and for denouncing the anti-Semitism of…

The Religious Right’s power grab: How outside activists became inside operatives

Trump’s conservative Christian critics have lamented that fellow believers were sacrificing values and principles to support him. But they have also expressed regret that the Christian capitulation to Trump exposes painful truths about the Religious Right’s quest for power.

The high cost of popular evangelical Jen Hatmaker’s gay marriage comments

The backlash to both Hatmaker’s comments and to LifeWay’s decision reveals growing rancor in evangelical circles over same-sex relationships.

When telling the truth is painful — and affirming

So here’s how last week went down for me. It actually all began almost two weeks ago when I was sitting in an airport about a 12-hour plane ride away from home. The final presidential debate wasn’t on TV anywhere,…

Putting the common in good

It seems clear to me that biblical texts reflect varying degrees of inspiration. Some texts simply perpetuate the status quo, even offering justifications for national exceptionalism, violence and the stratification of society. It’s difficult to find any positive benefit from…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church