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North American Baptist Fellowship seeking new leader

The North American Baptist Fellowship, one of six global regions affiliated with the Baptist World Alliance, is accepting applications for a new general secretary. George Bullard, president of the Columbia Partnership, recently announced he is stepping down July 31 after…

‘Religious liberty’ bill passes Georgia House, Senate

The Georgia General Assembly passed an amended “Free Exercise Protection Act” March 16 that now heads to an uncertain fate with the state’s Republican governor. Capping two years of lobbying efforts by groups including the 1.3-million-member Georgia Baptist Convention, the…

Transitions for this week

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Paul Batson, to First Baptist Church, Elizabeth City, N.C., as pastor. He comes from the pastorate of Nobles…

The Religious Right is in a battle for souls, and it’s losing to Donald Trump

What’s the mood among influential Christians? Sad!

Isn’t it a shame that Jesus never went on a marriage retreat?

Why couldn’t Jesus have said just one sentence about marriage that you could post on Facebook for Valentine’s Day?

Thinking of church membership in new ways, thanks to ‘cyber hospitality’

The way Susan Sparks sees it, congregations are missing a huge opportunity to share the gospel by not livestreaming their worship services. “We represent a messiah who used every available opportunity he had to reach out,” said Sparks, pastor at…

BJC’s Brent Walker urges vote on Obama’s Supreme Court nominee

A Baptist church-state expert welcomed President Obama’s March 16 announcement of a nominee for a Supreme Court seat vacated by the death last month of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia. In a Rose Garden ceremony Wednesday morning, the president announced his…

The moral vision of Bernie Sanders

Like a growing number of Americans, Bernie Sanders does not define himself within clear religious categories, even as he stays engaged with questions of morality and a just society.

‘Evangelical elite’ just doesn’t get it, claims pastor and Trump supporter

A Southern Baptist pastor who has been supportive of GOP presidential front runner Donald Trump says leaders of an “evangelical elite” vocally opposed to Trump are out of touch with people in the pew. “There is an absolute disconnect between…

The threat of ‘all or nothing’ demands

Legislative and administrative exemptions designed to protect religious liberty without harming other important interests should be encouraged.

The LGBT politics of Christian colleges

At many evangelical universities, you can be gay — as long as you don’t “act” it.

To such as these

It was the last place I wanted to be that night. It had been a long day, and now I was crammed into a hot and crowded school auditorium for my son’s school music program. I gave him a thumbs…

Lindsey Graham spoke at Baptist church a week before his death

When leaders know better but choose a different path

On the death of Lindsey Graham

Farewell, Three Amigos