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Four Cuban Baptist groups find common ground in medical ministry

Four Cuban Baptist groups are launching a medical ministry both to address the nation’s health care crisis and to help overcome theological differences that divide them, according to an official with the Baptist World Alliance. BWA President Tomás Mackey and…

Two things can be true at the same time

In case you missed the controversy, Easter Sunday and Transgender Day of Visibility fell on the same day this year. Oh, the horrors! Conservative evangelicals — many of whom who believe transgender identity is not a real thing — saw…

Pastor’s wedding night advice to women opens a conversation on harmful evangelical teaching on sex

On your wedding night, “stand where he tells you to stand, wear what he tells you to wear, and do what he tells you to do.” This is the advice Southern Baptist megachurch pastor Josh Howerton gave the women of his…

Baltimore bridge collapse highlights dangerous work immigrants do in America

Immigration advocates are extolling the contributions of the nation’s immigrant workforce while grieving for six Latin American construction workers killed or presumed dead after a cargo ship collided with a bridge in Baltimore, Md. Supporters of immigration reform also warned…

Pence will speak at luncheon during SBC annual meeting

Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence will speak at a luncheon during the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting in Indianapolis June 11. The former Indiana governor is a popular figure among many Southern Baptists, who identify among the conservative evangelical…

Arkansas pastor resigns after months of dissension over mishandling child sexual abuse cases

After a months-long saga of media coverage, internal infighting and an exodus of members and deacons, Pastor Steven Smith of Immanuel Baptist Church of Little Rock, Ark. tendered his resignation via a letter to his congregation last night. As previously…

Wrestling with the reality of sexual abuse in the Easter story in Surviving God

In their new book, Surviving God: A New Vision of God Through the Eyes of Sexual Abuse Survivors, Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan Shaw offer a feminist and intersectional understanding of God that challenges traditional ways of Christian thinking. Kim…

The last word is hope

One of the most important things I learned over four decades of ministry is that hope saves people’s lives. Hope saves them spiritually, emotionally, relationally and sometimes even physically. People hope for many things. They hope for forgiveness, reconciliation, healing….

Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde has been the Episcopal bishop of Washington, D.C., since 2011. She has discussed faith and politics on PBS NewsHour, Meet the Press, Good Morning America, and the Today show, and is the author of several books,…

Metaxas calls Bonhoeffer’s relatives ‘Jew-hating lunatics’

North Carolina pastor abruptly forced out of prominent pulpit

Responding to the militarization of immigration policy

Meddling with Methodism and domesticating the Baptists