Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Pokémon Go has become a no-go according to the leading religious organization of Saudi Arabia, the Reuters News Service has reported. Far from seeing the virtual reality game as a potential lure to houses of worship, the Saudi Muslim clerics…
