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BWA, Catholics to resume dialog in 2017

Baptists and Catholics will launch a third round of theological conversations in 2017, the Baptist World Alliance has reported. The announcement followed talks between the BWA and the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

Engineering an enhanced human? The more religious you are, the less likely you’ll want to.

Most Americans are put off by the idea of using science to “enhance” human abilities — and these attitudes are strongly connected with people’s religiosity.

School voucher program compromises religious liberty, says BJC

Funneling taxpayer funds to religious schools through a voucher program compromises religious liberty, according to a brief filed at the Nevada Supreme Court and joined by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty.

Fourth woman joins sexual assault lawsuit against Baylor

A fourth woman has joined a federal Title IX lawsuit against Baylor University, asserting she was gang-raped by some Baylor Bears football players in 2011.

Fear and the story we tell ourselves

It’s exhausting. The stories in my head. The imagined scenarios, assumed motives and relentless “what ifs” that make me question myself, think the worst of others and suck the joy out of life.

The book ‘I Kissed Dating Goodbye’ told me to stay pure until marriage. I still have a stain on my heart.

On the surface, I am a purity-culture success story: I am a heterosexual woman, a virgin until marriage, now with two small children and a husband I deeply love. And yet, for me, the legacy of purity culture is not…

At a loss for words

Lament is truthful speech that names the fact that some of us are losing our sons and some of us are losing our souls and none of us can be whole until we change.

Apocalyptic obsession that inspired ‘Left Behind’ series also fueling Trump support, ministers say

If nothing else, the best selling “Left Behind” series, first published in 1995, was well-timed. The entire culture was preoccupied with big endings and scary changes.

J. Harwood Cochrane, benefactor to Baptist causes, dies at 103

J. Harwood Cochrane, a Virginian whose fortune from a trucking empire supported numerous Baptist causes as well as the arts, died July 26 at 103.

Tim LaHaye, evangelical legend behind ‘Left Behind’ series, dies at 90

LaHaye was a prominent Christian leader and successful megachurch pastor but best-known for “Left Behind,” the wildly popular series of novels imagining Jesus’ return to Earth in the modern era.

Grief fatigue: Are we really making a difference in the world’s healing?

Last week I had the opportunity to meet with a group of millennial social justice leaders who were meeting across the street at Union Theological Seminary. I probably shouldn’t have read their bios before I headed over to their closing…

Steady space in an unsteady world: Church and the power of place

In 1993, AT&T launched an ad campaign now famous for its accuracy about future technologies. The ad showcased video calls, tablet computers, eBooks, personal GPS navigation and the digital classroom. The central theme was the erasure of space. When checking…

How much is enough?

Robert Sloan, Baptist educator, dies at 77

What patriotism is not

Amid flurry of rulings, habeas corpus spells trouble for Trump immigration policies