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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...

Pope Francis’ favorable rating drops in U.S.

How to see Pope Francis during his U.S. visit

Dylann Roof indicted on federal hate crime charges in Charleston church shooting

South African culture featured in BWA congress opening

By Robert Dilday A celebration of South African culture — and the country’s remarkable transformation into “the rainbow nation” — highlighted the opening session of the Baptist World Congress July 22 in a colorful display of music and dance. The…

An encompassing Christology

By Molly T. Marshall The Baptist World Congress is assembling in Durban, South Africa, and it holds much promise because of its setting and its theme. South Africa manifests significance for the whole world because of its pursuit of truth…

A necessary heretic

Last week, the long-awaited new book Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates finally hit shelves. Its release was moved up from October to July in light of recent events yet again raising the ongoing concerns of race in…

Second African since 1905 takes helm of global Baptist group

By Robert Dilday As the Baptist World Alliance prepared July 22 to convene its first world congress in Africa, the global organization also transitioned to new leadership with a South African pastor taking the helm as president — only the second…

Baptist leaders join call for national strategy on global religious persecution

By Ken Camp Baylor University President Ken Starr, Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Community Church in Southern California and Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, joined a call for a national strategy to…

Adopting schools is about community building, not proselytizing, educators say

By Vicki Brown The pastor of the Baptist church in the small rural community saunters down the hallway in a public school toward the cafeteria, greeting students by name as he goes. Once through the lunch line, he nabs a…

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’

Pope Francis’ favorable rating drops in U.S.

How to see Pope Francis during his U.S. visit

Dylann Roof indicted on federal hate crime charges in Charleston church shooting

South African culture featured in BWA congress opening

An encompassing Christology

Second African since 1905 takes helm of global Baptist group

Baptist leaders join call for national strategy on global religious persecution

Adopting schools is about community building, not proselytizing, educators say

Two CCCU colleges to allow same-sex married faculty

European Evangelicals Draw A Clear Distinction From Their American Counterparts

Clergy serving among the ruins of Venezuela

The Deep Spiritual History of AI

Israel’s parliament approves laws to enshrine exemption of ultra-Orthodox men from military service

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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’