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...
“We’re new to the area” he said. “We moved here to plant a church.” When I asked him where they were planting the church, he mentioned a nearby development where the cheapest loft is $190,000 and the houses start at…
Almost 80 percent of white American evangelicals plan to vote for Donald Trump, a twice-divorced womanizer who made his name building and gilding casinos. A man who insults Hispanics, Muslims, African Americans, women, and anyone else who disagrees with him….
In some faith circles, the term “living in intentional community” is a buzz phrase akin to “being missional” or “doing life together.” But what does the practice actually entail? And are Christians called to do it? For many in the…
Two-thirds of Americans believe God accepts the worship of all religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam. The exception: Americans with evangelical Christian beliefs, according to LifeWay Research’s 2016 State of American Theology Study.
The Nevada Supreme Court has struck down the most extensive school-choice plan in the country, finding the legislature failed to appropriate enough money to sufficiently fund the state’s public schools before implementing the voucher plan. The court rejected arguments raised…
Columbia, Mo., pastor Brian Ford has been elected executive director of Churchnet, a ministry network of churches and individuals also known as the Baptist General Convention of Missouri. Pastor of Little Bonne Femme Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo., since 2003,…
Many evangelicals say that they feel they have no genuine champion in the presidential race and that the country has turned its back on them.
The Rev. Gretta Vosper’s decision to turn her church into a haven for nonbelievers “looking for a community that will help them create meaningful lives without God” has become too much even for the liberal-minded United Church of Canada.
Many reproductive justice organizations have mobilized to bring increased attention to a policy which prohibits federal funding of abortion.
René Maciel resigned as president of Baptist University of the Américas to become community life pastor at First Baptist Church of Woodway in Waco, Texas.
I am a New Yorker (with a Southern accent, but nonetheless a New Yorker). Like many of us, I witnessed the planes hit the World Trade Center towers on 9/11; I lived through the anthrax scare; and I now run…
From the outside, the nondescript building in downtown El Paso doesn’t look much like a church. But the converted gymnasium does in fact serve as home to Mesa Place Church. And Christian Gurrola may not look like a pastor to…
