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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...

CBF Arkansas adds assistant coordinator

By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of Arkansas has named Arkansas native and recent George W. Truett Theological seminary graduate Megan Pike as the organization’s first assistant coordinator. Pike, whose husband, Marty, serves as minister of children and youth…

Watershed moments

By Bill Leonard On June 15, 1215, eight hundred years ago, on Runnymede field between Windsor and the River Thames, King John of England placed his seal on a parchment document soon known as Magna Carta, the Great Charter. In…

I tweet; therefore, I am

A little over 2 months ago, my son was born. And, as I’ve taken a rather mushy and decidedly projectile-heavy absence from writing things for free on the internet, I’ve encountered an altogether unexpected feeling. Mainly, that I didn’t miss…

Christian Fundamentalism’s Grand Illusion

I often tell my conservative friends that their belief in an inerrant Bible is just as subjective as my subjective belief in an errant Bible. But they just can’t see it. They continue to shout the same refrain that their…

Volunteerism, vital for missions, transforms individuals and churches

By Brian Kaylor The leaders of faith-based disaster relief agencies know it as they respond to catastrophic weather in Texas. And so does Greg Morrow, pastor of First Baptist Church of California, Mo. What they and others know is that…

SBC asks Supreme Court to rule against gay marriage

By Bob Allen The Southern Baptist Convention called on the U.S. Supreme Court to leave it up to the states to decide whether or not to permit gay marriage in a resolution adopted June 16 in Columbus, Ohio. With a…

President of Northern Seminary to resign next year

By Robert Dilday Alistair Brown announced June 15 he will resign as president of Northern Baptist Theological Seminary at the end of the next academic year. Brown, who has been president of the seminary in suburban Chicago since September 2008,…

SBC ousts another gay-friendly church

By Bob Allen For the second straight year, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has voted to oust a church over homosexuality. The Executive Committee took action June 15 against Weatherly Heights Baptist Church in Huntsville, Ala., under a bylaw…

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’

CBF Arkansas adds assistant coordinator

Watershed moments

Christian Fundamentalism’s Grand Illusion

Volunteerism, vital for missions, transforms individuals and churches

SBC asks Supreme Court to rule against gay marriage

President of Northern Seminary to resign next year

SBC ousts another gay-friendly church

5 key questions about the Pope and climate change

Missionary pioneer Elisabeth Elliot passes through gates of splendor

SBC plans to avoid civil rights laws by pretending receptionists are ‘ministers’

Leaked encyclical draft attributes climate change to human activity

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’