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Passion, not money, needed for vibrant young adult ministries, study shows

Younger Americans are abandoning organized religion in ever greater numbers and it’s no shock that churches can’t control the underlying social forces driving that decline. But they aren’t totally powerless, either, says Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi, director of the United Church of Christ’s…

How God as Trinity dissolves racism

The widespread Christian failure to understand and experience God as Trinity has provided a breeding ground for both implicit and explicit racism.

CBF affirms top exec in the process of divorce

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship leaders released statements Aug. 25 affirming the leadership of Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter in light of her pending divorce.

Baptist children’s home declined gift from atheists, but fund will still benefit the cause

An atheist whose $100 donation to a Baptist charity in Oklahoma was declined has turned the gift into seed money for a GoFundMe campaign fund that now has drawn tens of thousands of dollars and is growing. Matt Wilbourn of…

Transitions for the week of 08.26.16

New staff changes, retirements, deaths and anniversaries from around the nation, updated weekly.

The importance of being carnal

The gospels are full of stories in which the “incarnate Christ” opens the interior life of human beings by giving attention to their carnal presence, their broken, hungry, naked, hurting bodies.

What judgmental Christians and playboy Olympic swimmers have in common

When we allow judgmental individuals to set the ministry agenda in our churches, or dominate the air-time of our congregational energy, we surrender the church’s ability to be a conduit of God’s grace in the world. We put grace on the backburner.

Students’ art project generates big bucks for Zambian orphans

Artwork created by several U.S. university students has fired up the imaginations and spirits of Zambian orphans and generated tens of thousands of dollars to help those struggling with disease and poverty in the African nation.

New Baptist Covenant links white, black churches in ministry

A Baptist inner-city minister says he sees parallels today to the disappointment with white moderate attitudes expressed 53 years ago in Martin Luther King’s famous “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” “I honestly think silence of the church in this era…

Baptist editor eyeing case of Muslim suspended for refusing to serve booze

A Baptist state newspaper editor says a Muslim flight attendant who sued ExpressJet airlines for suspending her because she refused to serve alcohol to passengers could be a test case on whether courts use a double standard in adjudicating religious…

Top of the church shopper’s list: Strong preaching

Top-notch preaching most attracts people looking for a new place to pray. That’s the conclusion of a new Pew Research Center study which asked 5,000 people about their search for a new church or other house of worship.

Cultivating ministers

Many schools are partnering with congregations to address issues of food and justice. But Princeton may be the first to create a theological curriculum in the context of a farm with the aim of shaping students for ministry.

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’