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The seminary professor who blazed a trail for environmental justice among Baptists

April 22, 1970, was an important day in the nation’s history. It marked the first celebration of Earth Day — an event that put environmentalism front-and-center in American society. With more than 20 million participants across the United States, Earth Day…

Why this Southern conservative supports Black Lives Matter

If you had asked me about Confederate monuments five years ago, I would have argued for the display of Confederate symbols partly on the basis of Proverbs 22.28: “Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.” I…

The night I tripped over three homeless people

The day of I had finished my part of a meeting with a congregational leadership team. They had other agendas to address that did not concern me. They invited me to feel free to leave. As I left the building…

Covenant of action inspires churches to social justice

Two very different Dallas churches inspired by callings for social justice are surmounting racial and geographical differences to minister to their city’s poor. Friendship-West Baptist and Wilshire Baptist churches came together formally in 2014 with a covenant of action through…

Child abuse a Calvinist problem, podcast says

Child abuse isn’t just a Catholic problem, it’s also a Calvinist problem, according to an April 20 podcast sympathetic to the so-called “young, restless and reformed” movement popular among evangelicals belonging to denominations including the Southern Baptist Convention. Mortification of…

Gregory Jones of Duke named Baylor provost and executive VP

Gregory Jones, senior strategist for leadership education at Duke Divinity School and a professor of theology and Christian ministry there, will assume his post at Baylor May 16.

Transitions for the week of 04.22.16

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Gary Dalton, to University Baptist Church, Charlottesville, Va., as interim pastor. Larry Greenfield, to the Parliament of the…

Harriet Tubman ousts Andrew Jackson in change for a $20

The U.S. Treasury is proposing to replace the slaveholding Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill with Harriet Tubman, the former slave and abolitionist.

The role of the Church in times such as these

In times such as these, what does the Church need to look like? Refuge, resistance and resilience.

A nation devoted to religious freedom, struggling to define it, state by state

Not all efforts to protect religious liberty are futile or misguided. Here’s how you can fairly evaluate religious liberty needs and understand proposed legislation.

That’s not your seat: Regulating the seating arrangements at God’s dinner party

“That’s not your seat” is a phrase used by Morgan DePerno, a student in my church history class, as the title for her recent review of Martin Luther King Jr’s Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. For Morgan, “that’s not…

Pastor wants SBC to repudiate Confederate flag

An African-American pastor is asking the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a resolution calling for elimination of public display of the Confederate flag. Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, recently submitted a resolution for possible consideration…

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