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BJC offers timely answers to questions about religious liberty

A new one-page resource advocates a “golden rule” for religious liberty. “Do not ask government to promote your religion if you don’t want government to promote somebody else’s religion; and do not permit government to hinder somebody else’s religion if…

Seminary president says ‘sanctified testosterone’ antidote for anemic church

The church cannot flourish without strong male leadership, a Southern Baptist seminary president said at a recent gathering promoting the idea that men and women are created for different and complementary roles in marriage and church. “Where there is a…

The real reason the Religious Right opposes trans equality. (It isn’t bathroom predators.)

We are stuck at this unproductive impasse, fixating on bathrooms, arguing about a threat that both sides know is nonexistent.

Ewan McGregor explores the humanness of Jesus

“Daunting” is one word Ewan McGregor used about stepping into the role of Jesus in the new film “Last Days in the Desert.”

What if we actually applied the Bible to our politics?

What if the lens we viewed politics through was the Bible? No, really! Seriously. For me, it might go something like this: The way of Christ compels me to love God with all my heart, mind, soul and strength. The…

The American Way(s) of Life

In his 1955 best-seller, Protestant, Catholic, Jew, sociologist Will Herberg wrote that “it is the American Way of Life that supplies American society with an ‘overarching sense of unity’ amid conflict.” Sixty-one years later, amid divisive ideologies of presidential politics,…

Anniversary cruise turns into spiritual experience for pastor, wife

It was just supposed to be a cruise to celebrate 15 years of marriage, see some of the Dominican Republic and even do a little service work, Tony Lankford recalls. Lankford, senior pastor at First Baptist Church in St. Simons…

SBC leader to convene national conversation on race

Southern Baptist Convention President Ronnie Floyd will convene A National Conversation on Racial Unity at the group’s annual meeting next month in St. Louis, the pastor of Cross Church in Northwest Arkansas announced in a blog May 2. Floyd said…

Youth volunteer at S.C. megachurch charged with abuse

A 20-year-old youth group volunteer at the nation’s largest Southern Baptist church has been arrested on a charge of sexually assaulting a minor. Leo LaSalle Comissiong III is accused of kissing and fondling a 15-year-old boy in February at the…

Bill would list schools asking for LGBT exemptions to Title IX

A Massachusetts congresswoman has introduced legislation to require the government to publish the names of colleges and universities that request religious exemptions to federal regulations that bar discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) unveiled…

What is the number of gun deaths before we say ‘enough’?

There was another shooting last week. There isn’t anything remarkable about that. I didn’t even know about it. Except this one occurred in a church, during a worship service, when one parishioner became “verbally abusive and agitated” when another member…

What happened to the Jesus People?

Evangelicalism has been less like a one-way street leading to the right, and more like a street with two-way traffic, carrying many people leftward.

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church