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Americans value freedom but there are differences on what it means

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,...

Work underway on sexual misconduct resource

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is collaborating with partner Baptist Women in Ministry to compile a resource listing best practices. Baptist Women in Ministry and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship are working in partnership to produce a resource addressing sexual misconduct by…

Let the tares alone

Are we courageous enough to stand on conscience, while taking seriously those whose consciences may not now, or ever, be compatible with our own? In 1644, Roger Williams, in London to secure a charter for the new colony of Rhode…

Raising kids in changing times: a new study unpacks the landscape

And finds most Millennial moms think they’re doing a pretty good job of it. It’s not news. Parenting — and the nature of families themselves — has changed in important ways over the past few decades. Finding the best way,…

Decrying graft, Pope Francis to tour poor, violent corners of Mexico

Authorities say sex trafficking getting harder to prosecute

A seminary’s calculated risk: An interview with Molly T. Marshall

Christians are now a ‘minority’ in Britain, say top clerics

Megachurches have less involved members than smaller congregations

I Preached With a Screen So You Don’t Have To

I Preached With a Screen So You Don’t Have To I hate being scared of things for the wrong reasons, but this was one of those times. I don’t normally use a screen when I preach. In fact, even though…

Pope says he goes to Mexico as a ‘missionary of mercy, peace’

Baylor under fire for sexual assault response

Critics say the Texas Baptist university has failed to take responsibility for sexual violence on campus. Ken Starr, the Whitewater prosecutor whose investigation of the Monica Lewinsky scandal led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, is on the defensive…

Grace as a default system

Too often, we begin relationships by assuming we experience the world exactly the same way. I recently had an opportunity to share lunch and conversation with a group of female seminarians. Over the course of the conversation I heard several…

3 views on Donald Trump held by American Christians

US megachurches report strong rebound from pandemic

Baptists need to speak up again for religious liberty

What in hell became of heaven?