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Common story, community and Christian higher education

(The following are my prepared remarks delivered as a devotion for the President’s Prayer Breakfast at Gardner-Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina on September 2, 2015.) The one unalterable date on our family’s summer calendar is the third week…

Hispanic leader to be nominated president of Texas Baptist group

By Ken Camp and Jeff Brumley René Maciel, president of Baptist University of the Américas, will be nominated this fall for president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas. And it comes just as the 2016 presidential election cycle is turning…

Russell Moore says faithful evangelicals cannot affirm homosexuality

By Bob Allen Biblical inerrancy is at the heart of the debate about whether or not homosexuality is a sin, the Southern Baptist Convention’s top spokesman for moral and religious liberty concerns said at a recent gathering of journalists who…

Oklahoma Wesleyan quits Christian college group

Majority of U.S. Catholics who left the church can’t imagine returning

Kentucky clerk fighting gay marriage has wed four times

Accountant admits defrauding $4M from N.J. church

New film puts spotlight on Boston’s pedophile priests

The word of God may not be what you think it is (tradition, scripture, and the word of the Lord)

Too often scripture is contrasted with tradition on the basis that scripture is the word of God while tradition is of human origin. Not so. In its biblical and theological usage tradition simply means “what is handed on.” In this…

Remembering John Claypool on the 10th anniversary of his death

I have been told that long before I stepped foot on the campus of Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology the issue of what students ought to call professors was addressed at a staff meeting. At a relatively small school…

Fewer Americans believe suicide guarantees damnation

By Jeff Brumley A new survey shows that most Americans, including large numbers of Christians, hold compassionate views about people who kill themselves. But some Baptist ministers remember times, not all that distant, when that wasn’t the case. Barry Howard,…

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