James Talarico isn’t the only Democratic candidate making faith a calling card of his campaign this year. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed will face Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Aug. 4. In a fundraising letter this week,...
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?”…
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…
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…
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.
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.
Missionaries and others who evangelize in Russia now face severe restrictions on those activities since President Vladimir Putin approved sweeping new anti-terrorism laws.
White privilege is mostly a non-experience for white people. White people are not criminalized because of their race, which is why a white man can carry an AR-15 in public and only receive a qualified response from police officers, while unarmed African-American men and boys are killed.
How Baptists around the world can best organize and mobilize for relief and development work was at the top of the agenda last week at the Baptist World Alliance’s Annual Gathering in Vancouver, British Columbia.
As a Christian pastor, on Sunday, this descendant of the Lees of Virginia will step into a pulpit in Raleigh, N.C., and say the names “Alton Sterling” and “Philando Castile.” Because enough is enough.
As Christians, we stand with all who are suffering, we seek to comfort all who are mourning and we seek justice for all who have been wronged.
We seek peace by seeking justice. If we seek peace without justice, we will never have peace. If we seek justice without peace, we will only perpetuate violence.
Because words, tears and prayers are not enough to salve the racial wounds ripped bare this week, Baptists around the country are calling for action — personal and corporate — to promote healing.
