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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…

More Noah’s ark headlines — this time at 5th-century synagogue excavation

While Ken Ham’s “Ark Encounter” museum near Williamstown, Ky., has drawn the lion’s share of attention this summer directed toward Noah’s vessel, another representation of the ark in Israel has been wowing the archaeological world.

Black pastor who wowed CBF now has Clinton’s ear on race

Kevin Cosby, the black Louisville, Ky., pastor who has inspired Cooperative Baptists on matters of race may now have the ear of Hillary Clinton as she prepares for her presidential run. The presumptive Democratic candidate attended a racial reconciliation worship…

BWA urges Baptists to stand with victims in war-torn regions of Nigeria

The Baptist World Alliance is urging the United Nations to increase its threat level designation for Nigeria and the Lake Chad region. The global Baptist organization cited rampant conflict and dislocation in the region, including “violence, murder and kidnapping” in…

Evangelicals, quit complaining and follow Jesus’ lead

It’s past time for evangelicals to unshackle ourselves from cultural privilege and to live out the central message of our Savior.

How Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s VP, defies the religious stereotype

Kaine’s old-school, social-justice, Jesuit-trained Catholicism is a refreshing break from the usual association of religiosity with conservatism.

Three ways family ties hinder us in our faith

The “faith of our fathers” offers a nice American ideal, but it also has become one of the key reasons adults fail to respond to the work of the Holy Spirit in their own lives. Those are likely startling words…

Growing movement pushing pastors to ‘get real,’ vulnerable with congregations

It takes a lot of guts and humility to be vulnerable. Just look at the New Testament account of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, Mary Alice Birdwhistell said. “Since feet were the primary mode of transportation, think how dirty they…

‘Jesus feminists’ see Hillary Clinton as a role model. They just won’t vote for her.

A more visible segment of young evangelical women now believe that women’s leadership and equal representation — longtime concerns of the feminist movement — are important for society.

Fire guts CBF church in North Carolina, station reports

Officials are investigating whether lightning sparked a fire that destroyed part of a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church in Mount Holly, N.C., Thursday. That’s what WSOC television reported Friday afternoon from the scene of the blaze at First Baptist Church. However,…

The Whore of Babylon: Pimping the Body of Christ to the highest political bidder

“God is on our side” has led to more bloodletting in the form of crusades, wars, colonialism and genocides than any other human caused catastrophe — a truth in which all faith traditions have, at one time or another, participated. All churches have played the “whore,” falling into the temptation of tailoring the liberative Good News to sell a political ideology or party as ordained by God.

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…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church