America’s 250th birthday prompted researchers at Navigator to ask Americans how they define America, patriotism and what our country should aspire to. The result was 82% of Americans across all generations saying they believe freedom is an extremely important value,...
A short-handed Supreme Court will hear its first major abortion case in almost a decade today, one that has the potential to revise constitutional standards and to affect millions of women.
Developmental psychologist Susan Engel has written a book entitled The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Curiosity in Childhood. She claims that children’s curiosity is triggered when they experience “natural, complicated and messy places to play.” Natural, complicated and messy? That…
Ethan Lange vividly recalls the first time he met Allison Dickson. It was a few years back when they were students at Baylor Law School. “She struck me as a person I can be an influence on, who I can…
A moderate Baptist ethicist says evangelicals who support Donald Trump for president represent a failure of conservative Christianity. David Gushee, a distinguished university professor at Mercer University, attributed the Trump phenomenon to a failure to “inoculate” American Christians against ideas…
The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is deploying field personnel to the South Pacific island country of Fiji, hit Feb. 20 by the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere. Eddy Ruble, who along with his wife, Cindy, was commissioned…
Similarly, the spirit also helps us out in our weakness. For example, we don’t know beans about praying, but the Spirit himself speaks up for our unexpressed concerns. And he who x-rays our hearts understands the Spirit’s approach, since the…
Unfortunately, “religious liberty” has become a dog whistle to agitate and motivate conservative Christians who fear losing absolute majority control over the United States.
A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship pastor in Texas announced Sunday he is resigning his pulpit because he and his wife are going through a divorce. Brent Beasley, pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, said during his Sunday morning…
Chapels at Oxford and Cambridge universities report a quiet revival in the digital era as Christians, Muslims and atheists alike seek solace in choral music and the Book of Common Prayer.
