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...
Falwell denies that he pulled a column from the student newspaper because it was critical of Donald Trump, though students are questioning his assertion.
“You can’t endorse me … but I endorse you and what you are doing.” That memorable phrase, delivered by presidential candidate Ronald Reagan at the Religious Roundtable National Affairs Briefing in Dallas in August 1980, highlighted the public beginnings of…
When I was in high school I joined the debate team. Up to that point I hadn’t been very good at many other things, but in debate I placed in the first tournament in which I ever competed — the…
It was Charlotte’s turn on Sept. 20, 2016, the day police fatally shot Keith Lamont Scott at an apartment complex. Cops say he was armed. The family said he was reading a book when officers approached. Just as they had…
A Baptist church with a nearly 60-year history of challenging the status quo is seeking a new pastor. The Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, a progressive congregation in Chapel Hill, N.C., affiliated with both the Alliance of Baptists and…
Muslim Americans describe the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a seminal moment that painfully altered their place in American society. But when CNN interviewed American Muslims about the presidential election, it heard a startling message: 2016 is worse.
Religious leaders and bioethicists have debated genome editing for decades, but it’s largely been a theoretical consideration. Now it’s a very real possibility.
You never know when an ending is really God’s new beginning. It was during a meeting of adult Sunday school class leaders. When asked what classes were celebrating, a young man named Randy raised his hand. “I have a celebration,”…
A Texas Baptist pastor has urged state lawmakers to reject the latest proposal to use taxpayer dollars to help parents send their kids to private or parochial schools or educate them at home. Charles Foster Johnson, executive director of Pastors…
The Synoptic Gospels’ story of Jesus’ welcoming the children is as puzzling as it is familiar.
A few weeks ago, I saw the renderings of a new development headed to the edge of a gentrifying neighborhood in Charlotte, N.C. The space looked nice, like the kind of spot many Charlotteans would be excited to walk or…
Relationships between churches hold the key to healing the racial divisions and violence that plague the nation, two Dallas ministers say. Bryan Carter, pastor of Concord Church in Dallas, and Jeff Warren, pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas,…
