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The Starbucks flap

By Russ Dean It starts this time every year, but thanks to South Park Mall in Charlotte, N.C., and Starbucks, the Christmas War is off with a bang. You know, Starbucks hates Jesus. So says Mr. “Merry Christmas,” who’s taking…

Churches promote ministries that unite generations

By Jeff Brumley The article is more than five years old but the question it raises is still a powerful one for some youth ministers, pastors and congregational coaches today: “Is Youth Ministry Killing the Church?” The 2005 Christian Century…

Baptists in Virginia elect officers, adopt reduced budget

By Robert Dilday The Baptist General Association of Virginia elected a new president Nov. 11 in a voting process which featured two candidates for the first time in 15 years, during an annual meeting which also included adoption of a…

CBF renews partnership with Global Women

By Bob Allen Leaders of Global Women, a woman-to-woman missions organization founded in 2001, and the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship recently inked a new partnership agreement for future collaboration. Suzii Paynter, executive coordinator of the 1,800-church CBF, said the new relationship…

Kentucky Baptists elect black president

By Bob Allen The Kentucky Baptist Convention elected its first African-American president Nov. 10 at Severns Valley Baptist Church in Elizabethtown, Ky. Kevin Smith, teaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville and an assistant professor of Christian preaching at…

Jimmy Carter says doctors find no new cancer growth

Muslim-majority city council may be first in U.S.

‘Spotlight’ portrayal of sex abuse scandal making Catholic Church uncomfortable all over again

Denzel Washington preaches gratitude to church members at St. Louis convention

Republicans predict Iran deal will gain them Jewish votes in 2016

World religions, up close and personal

By Doyle Sager Remember when studies of world religions were abstract and theoretical? No more. The world has come to us. And it is messier than we imagined. While seminary courses and numerous websites are helpful in providing academic knowledge,…

Why multiethnic? Imagining together

To start out our conversation on multiethnic church, I did some work around clarifying terms of “multicultural’ vs. ‘multiethnic’. Because these terms are often used interchangeably, I wanted to posit our discussion around ethnicity or ethnos as the central theme…

Rubio says US shouldn’t be held accountable by international court

Demands mount as Trump’s ICE agents kill two more people

The real American religion: A July 4 postmortem

9 months later, schools are paying for firing teachers over Kirk posts