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Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…

This is how unhinged Focus on the Family has become

Thirty years ago, when my wife and I were parents of newborn twins, James Dobson was considered the go-to expert for Christian parenting. What we didn’t know then is just how wrong some of his advice was. Dobson was required…

One year after the Club Q mass shooting, none of us are the same

It’s been more than a year since a man armed with an AR-15-style rifle walked into a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs and opened fire. It was Nov. 19, 2022, the day before Transgender Day of Remembrance. Club Q was…

It’s Holy Week, and Trump is comparing himself to Jesus once again

On the second day of the Christian Holy Week, Donald Trump once again compared himself to Jesus Christ. Huffington Post reported that as Trump attended a court hearing for his upcoming criminal trial over hush money payments to porn star…

Here’s some good news on the health of America’s clergy

The mental and physical health of America’s clergy may be better than previously reported, according to new data from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research. “There is no question that at this moment many clergy are stressed, exhausted and have…

Al Mohler takes his ‘Ask Anything’ tour to Cobb County

When Al Mohler’s “Ask Anything” tour came to Cobb County, Ga., March 24, I went over to see what it’s all about. The president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary has been on the road and online for several years fielding…

Watch your language and your beliefs, sex abuser survivors tell the church

The insidious and chronic nature of church sexual abuse is an outgrowth of patriarchal concepts of the divine that provide theological cover for abusers and shame for their victims, said the authors of a new book on theologies of abuse….

We are all interims eventually

Last December my wife, Lori, and I officially joined Oakland Baptist Church in Rock Hill, S.C., after attending worship for several months. I particularly was grateful for the music and worship leadership of a new colleague (and now friend), Suzanne…

Franklin Graham plans Easter Sunday broadcast from Jerusalem

Franklin Graham, one of the foremost allies of Israel among American evangelicals, will broadcast a special Easter message from Jerusalem March 31. He will be joined by Christian music artist Michael W. Smith. As Israeli Defense Forces have killed 31,000…

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