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There is nothing wrong with seminaries that a disruptive strategy couldn’t fix

By George Bullard In recent times we have witnessed a dialogue around the role and function of seminaries. This dialogue has been generated primarily by people involved in seminaries, divinity schools and other forms of higher education. Thus, their perspective….

A call for American evangelical leaders to confront evangelicalism’s lunatic fringe

A Call for American Evangelical Leaders to Confront Evangelicalism’s Lunatic Fringe Every religious movement that grows sufficiently large has a lunatic fringe; extremists attach themselves to religious (and other) movements to gain respectability and a “voice”-to influence the movement and…

People of faith explore upside of web: community building

By Jeff Brumley and Bethany Harper There’s a lot about the Internet and social media that’s good for humankind and religion, says Rabbi Joshua Stanton. “It demonstrates the creative potential of human beings and provides evidence that human beings are…

SBHLA director announces retirement plans

By Bob Allen Bill Sumners, an archivist who for more than 30 years has overseen one of the most respected historical collections by a religious denomination, will retire next July as director of the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives….

D.C. church postponing vote on gay marriage

By Bob Allen With the anticipated ending of a search for a new pastor, First Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., has postponed a vote scheduled in February about whether to change the congregation’s wedding policy to permit same-sex marriage. An…

Carson in Jordan: God bless and keep the Syrians – far away from us

Multi-ethnic churches now altering black attitudes more than white ones

Biblical king’s seal left its mark in Jerusalem, archaeologists say

Will ‘religious freedom’ be the issue that finally unites the Religious Right?

Let women light Hanukkah candles at Western Wall, Israeli official says

Before we say, ‘I forgive you’

By Starlette McNeill I am in a place that I had not anticipated and certainly could not have prepared for. It is the same feeling that I had after the shooting of nine bowed heads at Mother Emmanuel AME Church…

How seminaries form ministers: a much-needed conversation

By Scott Hudgins A recent column by Brett Younger, an associate professor at Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology, raises important questions about the changes in theological education, especially the emergence of exclusively online programs that are often described as…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church