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Campaign raises funds for Baptist gathering

A nonprofit organization has launched a GoFundMe campaign to help the National Baptist Convention make up a $65,000 tourism grant lost after an atheist group filed a lawsuit questioning the use of taxpayer dollars to support the group’s annual session…

American Baptist minister remembered as agent of reconciliation

An American Baptist pastor and denominational leader who early in his ministry advocated for justice and reconciliation in his native South Africa in the waning years of apartheid died Aug. 20. Desmond Hoffmeister, 56, senior pastor at Granada Hills Baptist…

A history of prophetic black preaching that doesn’t start or end with Dr. King

Q&A with Kenyatta Gilbert, author of “A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights.”

My summer vacation: A lesson in discrimination and hope

Israel is supposed to provide equal treatment to its citizens both Palestinian and Jewish, as it calls itself a “democratic” country. However, I did not notice anybody else except me treated in this way.

Neighbor churches, split on race lines, work to heal divide

About 170 years ago, they were one congregation, albeit a church of masters and slaves. Then the fight over abolition and slavery began and the churches separated by race.

Like all movements, the Church is propelled by both potential energy and kinetic energy

Even the clouds appeared to be drawing their energy from the land — or so it seemed from my perspective from the passenger seat traveling the Brazilian countryside. Mile after mile revealed expansive fields of sugarcane, a source of ethanol,…

Like Gissendaner, Wood case may change hearts on death penalty

Many Americans support capital punishment until they hear a story or meet someone who makes it personal to them, anti-death penalty activist Melissa Browning says. “Everything changes when you see it through the eyes of someone who is personally affected,” said…

French court suspends burkini ban

A top French court on Aug. 26 suspended a ban on full-body burkini swimsuits that has angered Muslims, feminists and civil liberties campaigners.

Student social media sparks race controversy for Christian school

The headmaster of a private Christian school started by First Baptist Church in Orlando, Fla., said Aug. 25 that he is taking “deliberate steps” to deal with students who created a social media controversy by posting racially insensitive messages on…

American Baptist group affirms children’s home decision to decline donation

American Baptist leaders have issued a statement of solidarity with an Oklahoma charity in the news for refusing to accept a donation given in honor of an atheist group. American Baptist Home Mission Societies released a statement Aug. 25 affirming…

Atheists’ lawsuit is financial setback for National Baptist Convention

An atheist group’s lawsuit has halted plans to provide $65,000 in Kansas City taxpayer dollars for September’s National Baptist Convention in Kansas City.

The popular Bonhoeffer quote that isn’t in Bonhoeffer’s works

This may come as a shock to countless Twitter and Facebook users who have posted a picture of Bonhoeffer with that quote attributed to him.

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war