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No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

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...

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Private schools, painful secrets

More than 200 victims. At least 67 private schools in New England — some with faith ties. This is the story of hundreds of students sexually abused by staffers, and emerging from decades of silence today.

The Great Calvinist Reawakening

According to The New York Times, a Calvinist revival is sweeping through modern American evangelicalism. But the new Calvinist revival—which amounts to a partial shift in theological emphasis and style—is a far cry from the Calvinist revival that burned through the…

Church shooting suspect gets public defender

A Pennsylvania man charged with manslaughter in an April 24 shooting inside a Southern Baptist church has been assigned a public defender in advance of a preliminary hearing scheduled May 12. Reports from local media say that members of the Montgomery…

Ode to an imperfect church

Thank you, researchers and bloggers and pastors and writers who are working earnestly to describe the transition churches are currently undergoing. I am grateful for your words and for your work. Like many of you, I am a faith leader…

Repurposing church

Maybe it’s because I’m not on Pinterest, but I never knew there were so many uses for wooden pallets. Once a single-use, routinely discarded, strictly utilitarian object, the pallet is now sought-after material for furniture, signage, art and design. It’s…

Transitions for the week of 05.06.16

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Nick Carter, to American Baptist Seminary of the West, Berkeley, Calif., as interim president, effective May 15. He…