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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Scalia funeral set for largest Catholic church in North America Saturday

Inside the investigation into child sexual abuse at Sovereign Grace Ministries

Okla. Supreme Court upholds school vouchers

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has upheld a program that sends scholarships to parents of students with disabilities for use at private schools, including religious schools, rejecting claims it violates a provision in the state constitution barring taxpayer aid to religion….

College, seminary seek to bridge racial opportunity gap

Simmons College of Kentucky and the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky announced plans Feb. 16 to make it easier for African-American college graduates to earn graduate degrees. A historically black college and a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship-aligned seminary have announced a collaboration…

El intrincado camino al cuidado personal

Hasta Dios, después de trabajar arduamente para completar la creación, disfrutó de un día de descanso. An English version is available here. Ya estamos a la mitad del segundo mes de este año y todavía estoy evaluando el año pasado,…

The bumpy road to self-care

Even God, laboring hard to complete the work of creation, enjoyed a day of rest. La versión en español está disponible aquí. It is already the middle of the second month of this new year, and I am still evaluating…

Minister ‘fought herself’ to accept generous church maternity leave policy

Carol McEntyre says she had to battle her own work ethic and guilt to take advantage of a generous parental leave policy at First Baptist Church in Columbia, Mo., where she is pastor. Many women clergy serve at churches where…

The fallacy in opposing ‘bathroom bills’

Franklin Graham is wrong again — and, once again, giving a bad name to my religion and my church. We could hope that if a Christian minister with a worldwide voice (often mistaken for “the” Christian voice), was going to…

Idolatrous listening: A time-saving habit

I want you to pull my britches down …. Say again? And on cue, as if the song could read my thoughts. I heard the same line for a second time. Nightmare scenarios started running through my head involving my…

unprofessional christianity VII: calling.

Ultimately, calling has nothing to do with who hears you, and everything to do with who you hear whispering to you to keep going, even in the dark. Calling isn’t about all the things you’re willing to go through until…

Wake up, Christians: The Flint water crisis is an issue of public justice

We cannot live without fresh water, and we cannot thrive without its abundance. We may debate whether other goods are “basic” to human flourishing, but there’s no argument about the necessity of water. So access to clean water is vital…

Aging hands no bar to ministry for retired couple

By Vicki Brown Don Wideman is a grateful man who, these days, concentrates on family and an adult Sunday school class at First Baptist Church in North Kansas City, Mo. The executive director of the Missouri Baptist Convention from 1987…