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Nonviolence and a different future with God

“Deliver us from evil.” Most Sundays we pray these words, but rarely do they sound the resonance we hear in these anarchic days. Evil seems unrelenting, incapable of exhausting its ravenous power. Who can withstand its voracious appetite for destruction?

Following Christ in our public and political lives

I get nervous about declarations that our current times are the “most” anything in human history. So I hesitate to say our current situation is the “most” critical time to engage contemporary issues in the church.

Pokémon Go has old, young generations talking. Will the conversation last?

No wonder churches are struggling to understand Pokémon Go, the smartphone-based augmented reality game whose lexicon includes terms like combat power, gyms, incubators, lucky eggs, Lure Models and PokeStops. Pokémon Go is bewildering to the non-player.

With its flying hospital, this group is saving the world from blindness

Vision impairment that’s easy to fix in rich countries can be life sentences in most of the world. These volunteer doctors aim to change that.

America’s problem is not racial tension — It’s racism

America does not have a problem with racial tension. Racial tension is simply the fever indicating the disease. America has a problem with racism.

Retweeting mercy in the midst of darkness

In her July 10 message at the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, Pastor Nadia Bolz-Weber retells the story of the Merciful Samaritan. The message is timely, coming as it does on the heels of a week —…

Standing as a family

There comes a time when enough is enough. When there seems like nothing else you can do, just stand, and stand we did — as a family.

After 30 years, advocate still sees need to step up for religious freedom

Brent Walker can see the U.S. Capitol and the U.S. Supreme Court building when he arrives at work. And that’s appropriate since he often finds himself heading over to those two buildings, as well as the White House and other…

White Conservative Christian America not going down without a fight

A vortex of new stories on Wednesday concerning the upcoming GOP convention, platform, and Trump coronation, placed together with forthcoming works about the rapid racial and demographic remapping of American Christianity (and American unbelief, for that matter), suggests that, if…

AME Church: Climate change disproportionately hurts blacks

Of Americans living near coal plants, 39 percent are people of color, and black children are four times as likely as their white counterparts to die from asthma.

Delta-bred Coker returns home from New England to lead Mississippi CBF

The thermometer offered a 103-degree “Welcome Home” recently to Mississippi native Jason Coker, returning to his roots after 14 years of church leadership in Wilton, Conn. A Baptist from the South with a drawl, Coker arrived in the affluent Connecticut…

Study: evangelicals at odds with rest of nation on police and racial bias

Unlike most Americans, evangelical Christians do not believe that law enforcement treats minorities unfairly, new research by The Barna Group has found. “Overall, only 29 percent of evangelicals believe police unfairly target people of color,” the Christian research organization said…

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