Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...
Somehow, Trey Lyon is able to pack nearly an hour of gospel into a few short minutes of preaching. And have it stick. “Trey’s sermons are 10 minutes, but I would argue they do more work theologically and homiletically than…
A financial supporter of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary criticized President Albert Mohler’s vocal opposition to presidential candidate Donald Trump in opposing op-ed pieces in the Louisville Courier-Journal. Jack Richardson IV, an attorney and longtime member of the Southern Seminary Foundation…
Religious leaders are joining a pilgrimage to rural South Carolina to mark the centennial of the lynching of a successful black farmer, hoping to draw attention to the history of killings of African-Americans and begin healing of racial divisions.
During a campaign swing through the battleground state of North Carolina, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke Oct. 23 from the pulpit of a 7,000-member African-American Baptist church. The former secretary of state reminded worshippers at Union Baptist Church in…
The United States is not there — at least not in relationship to our close neighbor, Cuba. Thanks to the tenacity of the church in the U.S. committed to God’s justice and love, and to President Obama, our neighborliness is…
It isn’t easy being a small church. Their pastors and members know it all too well. They are usually under-resourced — fewer members often means fewer dollars, fewer teachers and lay leaders, fewer books, workshops and experts focused to overcoming their…
Elections are but the end result of an advocacy for the common good that starts in each watershed. Imagine a different future, find collaborators, and spend yourself extravagantly.
A well-known Baptist church in Atlanta has decided to stay on the site it has occupied for six decades following a year-long study of options including relocation or possible merger with another congregation. Members of Wieuca Road Baptist Church voted Oct….
The new executive director of the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists — a network of more than 100 congregations that fully include members regardless of sexual orientation — hopes to lead the 23-year-old organization to be “a catalyst for building and strengthening…
Stephen Shoemaker said it is common for his students to be surprised by the significance of religion in the evolution of Harvard, and he believes part of his mission is to raise that awareness.
The Florida Baptist Witness, the 132-year-old news journal of the Florida Baptist Convention, will reduce its frequency from every other week to once a month beginning in 2017. The Baptist state newspaper will also begin publishing news stories online when…
Social media lit up this week after a biblical scholar reported that InterVarsity Press would be banned from exhibiting at the Society of Biblical Literature’s annual meetings.
