Tucker Carlson is calling for Mike Huckabee to be fired as U.S. ambassador to Israel, after Huckabee did not defend a U.S. Congressman violently detained by Israeli settlers. This is the second event in a few days where Israeli settlers...
Jeremy Everett was a young Baptist seminary graduate grappling with exactly how to answer his calling — to serve the poor — when he found the answer in a kitchen in Waco, Texas, at a birthday party for a Dominican…
A Washington-area evangelical church featured in recent reports in an alleged cover-up of child sexual abuse took center stage March 9 at a Maryland state senate hearing. Proposed legislation considered at the hearing would extend the statute of limitations on…
It’s election season and many pastors seem to have no problem with political endorsements. We’ve recently witnessed many high-profile Christian leaders cozying up to their favorite candidate. Endorsement of candidates by pastors happens on the left and right, and as the…
As faith-based environmental activism continues to grow, it hopes to change the country. Whether that means reaching conservative politicians through faith or prompting action from the pews, the idea is that religion can move those unconvinced by the science.
A longstanding dispute between Baylor University and the 157-year-old Baylor Alumni Association ended March 9 with settlement of a lawsuit filed in 2014. Baylor sued the alumni association in 2014 for trademark infringement stemming from a dispute that began in…
Melissa Browning was drawn deep into the anti-death penalty movement when the state of Georgia was trying to kill Kelly Gissendaner last year. There were plenty of ups, including multiple delays in her execution date. And there were downs, too,…
Republican legislators took offense when a Georgia Baptist Convention official compared them to Hitler for failing to move forward with a bill intended to bolster religious freedom protections. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution quoted Republican House members blasting Mike Griffin, senior pastor…
A new study identifies the most racist places in the United States, based on a novel approach: Google searches of the N-word.
Baptists tend to be the “problem children” of the ecumenical movement but have gifts both to give and receive from the broader Christian community, a Baptist theologian who teaches in the school of divinity at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs,…
Our latest roundup of clergy and staff transitions, and other items of interest, around the country.
References to religious liberty are more prominent than those to gay marriage in this year’s GOP campaigns. But is “religious liberty” simply code for same-gender marriage?
“I love the evangelicals,” presidential candidate Donald Trump declares in rallies across the country, “and the evangelicals love me.” So the billionaire builder lauds his self-identified “evangelical” supporters, as he cusses his way to the Oval Office, scorning Muslims and…
