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Faith transforms woman from struggling student to successful teacher

Abigail Garcia was new to Penitas, Texas, had few friends and was struggling through her sophomore year in high school. But rather than getting darker, her future got brighter thanks to people and programs she says were sent into her…

Barth, Church and migrants in Calais

Last week, French authorities began clearing an area of Calais called the “Jungle.” After enduring war and poverty, millions of people fled the Middle East, Asia and Africa. About 7,000 men, women, and children built a shanty town near the…

Alleged ‘Vote for Trump’ arson attack on black church strongly condemned by Miss. leaders

Cooperative Baptists are standing with a black Mississippi church set ablaze and vandalized with the words “Vote Trump” on Tuesday. And authorities announced today they have identified a person of interest in the arson attack. The city of Greenville, Miss.,…

Skeletal remains likely those of missing lobbyist’s wife

Authorities in St. Genevieve, Mo., say skeletal remains found on a Missouri Baptist lobbyist’s farm are likely the body of his wife who has been missing for 28 months. Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff Gary Stolzer told local media a body…

Parents fear that religion will make their children outcasts

A poll found that one in four were worried that their offspring might be sidelined by friends if they passed on their religious views.

‘Hacksaw Ridge’: The bloody, true story of faith in action

The story of the first conscientious objector to win the Medal of Honor, “Hacksaw Ridge” is about conflicts of many kinds: duty to God versus duty to country, individual freedom versus communal responsibility, healing versus killing, love versus hate.

Confrontation at the Cannonball: The Dakota Access Pipeline controversy

The issue at stake is corporate commerce versus Lakota Sioux cultural heritage and protection of water for the Standing Rock Sioux nation, and the fact that another major fossil fuel pipeline only deepens the trauma of our burning planet.

More than 80 percent of all church pastors should resign if …

The commonly accepted criteria for pastors’ leadership is that they bring a great vision with them when they become leader of a congregation, they know how to get people to follow their vision, and the results are a numerically growing,…

Clergy repudiate ‘doctrine of discovery’ as hundreds support indigenous rights at Standing Rock

From around the country 524 clergy responded to the call of North Dakota priest John Floberg to gather in support of the Sioux Nation’s attempts to stop construction of an encroaching oil pipeline near Standing Rock. Floberg, leader of three…

Opponents of new D.C. assisted death law vow appeal to Congress

Washington D.C. has become the sixth jurisdiction in the U.S. to approve so-called death-with-dignity legislation – but opponents vow to keep fighting against it. “We believe in life until natural death and that there is a racist component to it,”…

CBF sending new field personnel to China, New York City

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is seeking field personnel to fill positions in China and New York City. CBF announced online this week that it needs an individual, couple or family to serve a long-term assignment as a partnership advocate in…

How the Internet is loosening our grip on the truth

For years, technologists and other utopians have argued that online news would be a boon to democracy. That has not been the case.

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’