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Nurturing roots: strengthening ethnic and racial self-esteem

La versión en español está disponible aquí. Two days ago I started a journey with 10 members of the Latina Leadership Institute community. We traveled from San Antonio, Texas, to Mexico City to visit key historic, cultural and religious sites….

Nutriendo raíces: Fortaleciendo interacciones

An English version is available here. Hace dos días inicié un viaje con diez integrantes de la comunidad del Latina Leadership Institute. Volamos de San Antonio, Texas a la ciudad de México con la meta de visitar importantes lugares históricos,…

No Millennials in church? They may be working, expert says

Charging Millennials with rejecting church and being undisciplined givers doesn’t take into account the multitude of economic and social factors that characterize their lives.

Is America willing to be freed from its demons?

Walter Wink said that in order to overcome the array of human and supra-human forces aligned to destroy life, you must name, unmask and engage them.

Most Americans resist admitting world is ‘becoming browner’ says pastor, police chaplain

Racial tensions will naturally run high when a majority refuses to acknowledge “the world is becoming browner” and large numbers of voters rally around a white man “wanting to win back America,” according to pastor and police chaplain Paul Anderson….

If Pokémon Go feels like a religion, that’s because it kind of is

What sounds like a sudden global religious conversion, is, of course, the launch of Pokémon Go, an augmented reality smartphone game that has restarted the popular culture phenomenon of Pokémon.

If the church won’t speak out, who will?

I told this story in my sermon Sunday: I met a new friend the other day, who, upon finding out I was a pastor, asked me a question framed with a story. “What should pastors be saying about this election?”…

Do this — not, believe this — and you will live

The Sunday school version of the story of the good Samaritan in Luke 10 simply admonishes us to be like the Samaritan and show love to our neighbor but leaves the question, “Who is my neighbor?” unanswered. The Sunday school…

‘Spiritual friendship’ sustains pastor, layman through vocational challenges

Greg Rogers has had mentors, ministerial support groups and an array of denominational colleagues to draw on during his long career in ministry. But most of the strength Rogers needed to weather the challenges of pastoring a church, at least in…

Dallas chaplain says reconciliation will come only when all share the same narrative

After racing to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas July 7 in response to reported injuries from sniper fire downtown, Chaplain Alan Wright didn’t know what he’d find in the emergency room.

How to wreck your faith: A theologian teaches ‘Outlaw Christianity’

An outlaw Christian seeks to live an authentic life of faith and integrity, and chooses to defy the unwritten laws governing suffering, grief and hope that our culture and our religious traditions have asked us to ingest.

Baptists among religious groups facing severe limits under Russian laws

Missionaries and others who evangelize in Russia now face severe restrictions on those activities since President Vladimir Putin approved sweeping new anti-terrorism laws.

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