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Baptist school honors former first lady

By Bob Allen A Texas Baptist university has bestowed an honorary doctorate on former First Lady Laura Bush, recognizing her decades-long advocacy of education, health care, human rights and the family. Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas, presented the former…

Do science and religion conflict? It’s all in how you ‘see’ it

When churches get burnt by the offering

Pope’s plans for inclusiveness divide bishops

Handwritten draft of King James Bible sheds light on its creation

Mormon leader advocates understanding, respect in religious conflict

Staffing for survival

By Bill Wilson What is the most important staff position at your church? Of course, as a former pastor, I must declare that we cannot function without a pastor. What would we do without a music/worship leader? We cannot live…

Brad Hoffmann to be nominated for BGAV presidency

By Robert Dilday Brad Hoffmann, a suburban Richmond, Va., pastor, will be nominated in November as president of the Baptist General Association of Virginia, it was announced Oct. 21. Hoffmann, pastor of Cool Spring Baptist Church in Mechanicsville, will be…

Church history: Toward the future

This is the eighth of a nine-part series on empowering a faith community to impact the world. Already theology, hospitality, evangelism, missions, ethics, Bible, and spirituality have been explored. These articles can be found at the Perspectives tab at Baptist…

May your church find its soul

It is not the church of God that has a mission, it is the God of mission that has a church. — Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury This is what the missional church movement is about: refocusing us on…

Yearning for soul

The best leaders engage with the deep trends shaping cultures and our broader world rather than reacting to fads and symptoms. Nathan Jones and I wrote about seven of those trends several years ago, and we still believe they are…

Taking refugee work to the next level in North Carolina’s Research Triangle

By Jeff Brumley Stacie Blake knows a thing or two about refugees and refugee resettlement in the United States. Most importantly, it’s a massive job. As the director of government and community relations for the Washington-based U.S. Committee for Refugees…

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