Carlson calls for Huckabee’s removal for not defending congressman

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...

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Heirs to 2 evangelical empires take different paths into political fray

Rights groups sue over ‘Muslim-free’ Oklahoma gun range

BJC supports contraceptive mandate accommodation in Supreme Court brief

Far-reaching arguments made by some religious nonprofits against an accommodation procedure can endanger religious liberty, according to a brief filed at the U.S. Supreme Court by the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty and professor Douglas Laycock of the University…

Transitions 02.12.16

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Blake Benge, to First Baptist Church, Pensacola, Fla., as coordinating pastor of missions and ministries. He previously served…

Georgia clergy oppose First Amendment Defense Act

For the second year in a row, religious leaders are lining up on both sides of controversies over bills labeled “religious liberty” measures that critics say mask a hidden agenda of discrimination against gays and lesbians. A Cooperative Baptist Fellowship…

Before I die …

Our dreams should aim as high as possible. When the waitress brought our food I tried to find a way to ask, “How am I supposed to eat this?” I had to think fast. I came up with, “How am…

Brian McLaren: It’s time to re-write pro-war hymns

Brian McLaren, a leader in the emergent church and postmodern Christian movements, has rewritten Onward, Christian Soldiers, which he said reflects a disturbing pro-war theology. For decades, activist, author and pastor Brian McLaren has helped redefine American Christianity in his…

Where is the ‘I’ in ‘we’?

The charter of the United Nations begins with “We the people.” The U.N. is the one organization that ostensibly ties all of the world’s people together. And yet I’m sure that swaths of human beings don’t identify themselves as a…

What is slowing down the decline of many denominations?

As a group, established denominations are in decline for various reasons. Typically this happens when the collection of congregations in a denomination do not innovate the style of their ministry to present the substance of the gospel in a manner…

Jesus does not want you to be hit men, Pope Francis tells Mexican youth

Why evangelicals are splintering and what it means for the GOP

Women-led mosque opens in Denmark