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CBF appoints committee to implement Illumination Project

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship has announced the creation of a five-member committee charged in part with guiding the organization through renewed controversy over its longstanding policy against hiring LGBTQ people. The committee is responsible for implementing the Illumination Project, which…

Vote with our actions, love with our voices

If I asked which presidential candidate has been described as being “aided and abetted by the powers of darkness,” about whom would you guess this quote is referring too? Where might the quote have come from? Does the quote seem…

The parable of the black life

In his 2015 book Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes to his son, “In America it is tradition to destroy the black body. It is heritage.” Ever since I read, re-read and re-read again those words, I have…

Clearing the remaining obstacles for Americans with disabilities is a moral obligation

As we approach the ADA’s 26th anniversary, Americans with disabilities continue to face unemployment and poverty rates twice the national average and discrimination in many areas including employment, transportation and education.

Talking race is — and should be — uncomfortable, Baptist leaders say

Of all the workshops offered at last month’s CBF General Assembly, at least one of them counted on its participants checking their comfort zones at the door. The leaders of “The Elephant in the Room: Engaging in Dialogue around Race…

Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood announces leadership change

An evangelical organization that advocates distinct and separate roles for men and women in the church, home and society has announced a leadership change. The Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood announced July 20 the selection of Denny Burk, professor…

Transitions for the week of 07.22.16

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Lisa Baker, to Wake Forest (N.C.) Baptist Church, as minister to children and families. Elizabeth Banks, to Brook…

Pro-Trump pastor whitewashes history of pastors during Jim Crow — including the history of his church

Whatever role pastors and other clergy had during the fight against slavery and Jim Crow, there is a specific history that pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas is ignoring.

At nearby gas station, congregation offers hospitality

AUDIO STORY | Smoke Rise Baptist Church in Stone Mountain, Ga., lent support and hospitality to their new neighbor, Malik Waliyani, whose nearby BP gas station had been robbed and ransacked just a few days earlier.

Faith and hope

Texas is home to the largest Muslim population in the U.S. But for a new generation of leaders the challenge is to make sure their community feels welcome in their own backyard.

Embracing the power of what we don’t yet know

Can we resist our native evangelical bent for clarity, certainty, closure, purity, decisiveness and (yes) judgment — at least long enough to simultaneously value listening, nuance, creativity and (yes) the fresh wind of the Spirit?

In N. Charleston, justice advocate avoids anger, burnout with centering prayer

Last year was an especially difficult one for folks in and around Charleston, S.C. Bill Stanfield, CEO of a faith-based community development organization, centering prayer emerged as his response.

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