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No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...

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Paige Patterson named to Cruz advisory council

A Southern Baptist Convention seminary president has been named to a Religious Liberty Advisory Council created by Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz. Paige Patterson, president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, is part of a 19-member group…

BNG gets a brand new look

Baptist News Global has a fresh face! With help from our friends at e10, an agency with decades of experience in developing online and offline brand experiences, our new visual identity was developed to reflect our growth as an online…

Remaining curious

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…

Gushee: Evangelical support for Trump a failure for Christianity

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…

CBF personnel aiding with cyclone recovery in Fiji

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…

Don’t know beans about praying

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…

Citing divorce, CBF pastor stepping down

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…