It is midnight. Not the kind of midnight measured by clocks. The kind that settles into your bones. The kind that lingers long after the sun has risen. We all know this midnight. It is the midnight of the marriage...
Plans are underway for a sixth Global Baptist Peace Conference to be held in Cali, Colombia, in 2018. The gathering, scheduled Jan. 29-Feb. 3, 2018, is for Baptists across the globe who are passionate about nonviolence, social justice and the…
The word “evangelical” has become almost meaningless this year, and in many ways the word itself is at the moment subverting the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I recently subscribed to Scientific American, the iconic popular science magazine. In other seasons of culture, the previous sentence may have read more confessional than I intend it, but as the latest installment of the “Star Wars” franchise has proven,…
In a first-ever position statement on a political candidate, the evangelical news-and-commentary website the Christian Post ran an editorial Feb. 29 urging Christians to back away from GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. “As the most popular evangelical news website in the…
Somehow, Buck and Stephanie Baskin make messy look good. They live in a quiet, Mesquite, Texas, neighborhood. But the quiet ends at the door. Inside, their growing family of adopted children are all hustle-and-bustle. When Buck opens the door for…
Globalization and world religions, interlocking realities in our day, place the great faiths of the world in ever closer proximity. Incidences of violence, done in the name of religion, prompt questions about whether religion is a dangerous force to be…
The John Leland Center for Theological Studies in Arlington, Va., and Baylor University’s Truett Theological Seminary in Waco, Texas, have initiated steps toward a merger.
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…
A Southern Baptist Convention leader says evangelical voters will face a tough choice if the 2016 presidential election boils down to a race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky.,…
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…
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…
