In a year of faith-talking Democrats, a Muslim candidate speaks up

James Talarico isn’t the only Democratic candidate making faith a calling card of his campaign this year. In Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed will face Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Aug. 4. In a fundraising letter this week,...

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Retired pastor reviews worship services

Campus minister: Muslims not ones who asked for Wichita State chapel renovations

Over pastor’s objections, First African Baptist added to city’s historic register

Parliament of World Religions convenes in Mormon country — at last

State Department religious freedom report focuses on terror groups

Locating your door

By Molly T. Marshall I have invested time this summer reading David Brooks’ fine book, The Road to Character. He did not write it quickly — nearly seven years in the making — and in it he contrasts two forms…

Vision is a movement of God that is memorable

How do you define vision? If you cannot define it, you may not know what it is when you have it. Vision is not the same as mission. The eternal mission of a congregation is the timeless understanding of the…

A new political imagination for today’s church

By Sam Speers and Kristopher Norris As the 2016 election cycle begins amid much pomp and fanfare, American Christians will once again face the question of how to navigate a fraught, and curious, political arena. In what has already been…

Rise of post-Christians scares some, energizes others

By Jeff Brumley The Barna Group’s recent report of a sharp increase in the nation’s post-Christian population this year came as no surprise to Joy Yee, senior pastor at Nineteenth Avenue Baptist Church in San Francisco. Nor was she shocked…

Member of BJC board dies after fall

By Bob Allen A member of the Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty board of directors died Oct. 8 from complications related to injuries he suffered from a fall as he left his hotel for the recent BJC board meeting….