Our church has just lived through the worst natural disaster our area of California ever has experienced, and the damage is not fully comprehended yet. On Jan. 7, a fire broke out in the Eaton Canyon area, which is a...
Dear Editor: In response to Kirsten Christensen Roberts’ opinion piece: Yes, Kristen, your young people were deceived in 2016 and they unwisely voted for Donald Trump not realizing you don’t vote for an individual, you vote for a party. This…
The Southern Baptist Convention North American Mission Board is happy to take money from Texas Baptists but unwilling to give money back to shared missions causes, the editor of the Texas Baptist Standard said in a May 23 editorial. In…
The papacy is an “unbiblical office” and Pope Francis is a heretic, according to Southern Baptist leader Al Mohler. Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., blasted the pope in his May 21 podcast called “The Briefing.”…
Transitions Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated bi-weekly. STAFF CHANGES Jonathan Chacko, to Crosscreek Baptist Church, Pelham, Ala., as associate pastor. Michael Glenn, to First Baptist Church,…
After two days at the 2024 National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Dallas this weekend, I was ready to call the gun advocacy organization a changed institution. At first, the imagery, rhetoric and workshop topics seemed less misogynistic than those…
Try as he might, President Biden is not winning the support of conservatives in Congress with his policies limiting asylum access and increasing summary deportations of migrants, immigration attorney Blaine Bookey said. “Biden just can’t out-Trump Trump,” said Bookey, legal…
Fourteen years after adopting an aggressive plan to advance the Great Commission of Jesus, the Southern Baptist Convention largely has failed to follow its own plan, a blue-ribbon evaluation team reports. “What will likely be the key takeaway from this…
Author John Pavlovitz will join BNG Executive Director Mark Wingfield Tuesday, May 28, for a change-making conversation about his latest book, Worth Fighting For. The free one-hour webinar will begin at 1 p.m. Eastern time. Advance registration is required by…
Church attendance is falling in the U.S., but some evangelicals continue to comfort themselves with the false idea that their churches alone are still growing. Syndicated columnist Cal Thomas gave the debunked claim fresh legs in his recent nationally syndicated…
