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Three tips from the trail for those who are struggling

In all my planning for our section hike of the Appalachian Trail last week, I apparently only read the blogs that talked about the incredible views I would see along the way. Mountain peaks and rolling hills. If folks wrote…

It’s just church

What if, instead of using the tired mathematics of budgets, buildings, and pew-butts to determine whether or not the Church is effective, we started judging the efficaciousness of a body of people charged with bringing heaven to earth?

Clarify those expectations, experts tell pastor search committees

It seems obvious that a church searching for its next leader would be clear on how it understands the role of the pastor in its own context. But the hard truth is congregations are often fuzzy on that detail. “If…

Court halts execution criticized in clergy letter

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted an execution scheduled Aug. 24 which had been labeled immoral by a group of evangelical leaders including several well-known moderate Baptists.

The obsession with biblical literalism

A Christian theme park in Kentucky brings the ancient to life through a life-sized reconstruction of Noah’s Ark—but not without dipping into fiction.

Why Kenya’s houses of worship are getting a yellow makeover

Muslim and Christian congregations are coming together to paint their sacred sites the color of joy.

Canadian Baptist group protests racial profiling

An association of Baptist churches in Canada is calling for a boycott of the nation’s second-largest supermarket chain to protest the grocer’s appeal of a human rights panel’s finding that the store engaged in racial profiling.

What would happen if we set fear down?

You would think that after preaching almost four cycles of the Revised Common Lectionary a preacher would have at least one sermon on all the interesting texts that come around regularly. For some reason unknown to me, however, it turns…

The year clichés stopped making sense

There is something wrong with 2016. That may be the most self-evident and non-controversial statement to come up in your Facebook newsfeed in quite a while. In fact, it has become an almost universally acknowledged truth. So many of us…

Sue for religious freedom? It’s not just for conservatives, anymore

The number of religious freedom bills across the United States may give the impression that using the law to protect faith is a purely conservative pursuit. Well, it isn’t, says Brent Walker of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

Trump donates $100,000 for flood relief to Baptist church whose interim is conservative activist

Presidential candidate Donald Trump has donated $100,000 for flood relief to a Louisiana Baptist church where Family Research Council President Tony Perkins is serving as interim pastor. The Republican nominee and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, stopped at Greenwell…

Chaplains begin treating veterans for newly designated ‘moral injury’

Moral injury is not classified as a mental disorder such as PTSD. It can develop when a veteran experiences or witnesses acts during war that violate deeply held moral beliefs.

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’