Baptist News Global

AI is being used to abuse children, and we can do something about it

Last May, congress passed the Take It Down Act, requiring websites to remove “nonconsensual intimate visual depictions” of identifiable individuals. This includes both real and AI-generated content. But this law only addresses content publication, not the various ways in which...

People moving around less; Baptist News Global asks what that means for today’s churches

“Doesn’t anybody stay in one place anymore?” Carole King asked musically. Well, researchers at the Barna Group have the answer: More and more Americans are doing so. And Jeff Brumley of the Baptist News Global operation looks at whether people…

Civility the right response to church bombings, Baptist pastor says

By Jeff Brumley In 2014, Kevin Glenn published a book detailing the loss of civility in American culture and proposing some ways to revive it. Now it looks like Glenn is going to have a chance to put Hand over…

SBC leader disappointed by Planned Parenthood vote

By Bob Allen The Southern Baptist Convention’s top public policy spokesman vowed to continue to seek defunding of Planned Parenthood after Senate Democrats blocked a proposal to redirect the $500 million a year in taxpayer funding that the women’s health…

Ky. Baptist children’s home hires CEO

By Bob Allen A Kentucky Baptist child care agency has hired a replacement for a CEO who resigned in December 2013 amid controversy prompted when he suggested a policy change to allow the hiring of gays. Directors of Sunrise Children’s…

North Korea reveals why it captured Canadian pastor

Moving beyond suspicion, Muslims and Evangelicals seek common ground

Commissioner says IRS won’t revoke tax-exempt status of colleges that oppose gay marriage

Modern. Southern. Baptists.

Younger Southern Baptists seek a less partisan approach to political engagement

Home field advantage

By Corey Fields We recently visited my wife’s family. Up where they live, you watch a lot of Yankees baseball. At one point they were playing a series against the Rangers in Texas. In one of these away games, the…

Taking it all in – the pain and the joy

Joseph Andrew Haynie’s eyes were blue. Reading his Army discharge papers fifty-eight years after his death, I learned this simple fact. Joe Haynie married Katie Louise Clyde in the tumultuous year of 1941 – and left not long afterwards for…

When belief becomes more important than people

Conservative evangelical Wheaton College has decided to stop offering health insurance plans to students rather than comply with federal requirements under the Affordable Care Act. The school is suing the Department of Health and Human Services claiming that the requirement…

An American experiment: 250 years of trying

10 reasons America is not a ‘Christian nation’

American Dominion traces deep roots of Seven Mountain Mandate

Lindsey Graham and the history of ‘widow’s succession’