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Southern Baptists to be host for Bevin’s inaugural worship service

By Bob Allen Kentucky Gov.-elect Matt Bevin will break tradition by holding his inaugural worship service at a Southern Baptist church outside of downtown Frankfort, Ky. Hershael York, pastor of Buck Run Baptist Church in Frankfort, confirmed on Twitter Nov….

Supreme Court to hear religious challenge to Obamacare

By Bob Allen The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Nov. 6 to hear appeals from religious non-profits including Baptist universities and the Southern Baptist Convention’s insurance provider challenging required coverage of contraceptives under Obamacare. The high court combined seven cases to…

Henri Nouwen’s unpublished works to release 20 years after death

Leaked documents won’t stop financial reforms, pope says

New journal looks at ‘American and Christian duty’ in foreign affairs

Do you believe in us?

By Elijah Zehyoue One of the coolest things about being a post-seminary young minister is that I get to spend a lot of my time engaging with and often leading other young ministers and young leaders. And while this can…

New Mormon policy makes apostates of married same-sex couples, bars children from rites

University Baptist Church: ‘We’re going to be fine’

Confronting the silence of structural racism

By Scott Stearman There is recognition at the United Nations that people of African descent have been subject to a fairly specific kind of insipid global racism. This racism is somewhat unique in that it isn’t simply based on standard…

The power of negative thinking

In some ways it has been the curse of my life, a genuine burden and even bane of my existence. For as long as I can remember I’ve tended to see problems everywhere I look. To my way of thinking,…

Pastors are only one of five keys to visionary leadership

By George Bullard Often congregations put high pressure on their senior or solo pastor to be the originator of vision. It is a classic statement, and by no means an urban legend, that laypersons will say when a church is…

Seeing where God is at work in South Africa, Baptists from U.S. join in

By Aaron Weaver April 27, 1994. That’s the date that South Africa held its first democratic election, forming a multi-racial coalition government and officially doing away with the country’s brutal, five-decade long system of racial segregation and oppression. Nelson Mandela…

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