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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...

Guilt by association: Why Franklin Graham is bad for my church

(A letter from Russ Dean, Co-Pastor at Park Road Baptist Church, to The Charlotte Observer regarding its coverage of Franklin Graham’s call for a boycott of Wells Fargo Bank.) Dear Editors, I am frustrated you chose to run as a…

A tale of two commencement addresses

By Executive Director J. Brent Walker School is out, and summer vacation is here! Congratulations to our graduates – not just high school, college, seminary and graduate school but, nowadays, all the way down the line. My five-year-old grandson even…

Baptists open safe house for human trafficking victims

By Vicki Brown Savannah Oswald elbowed her way through the crowds on Black Friday 2014, searching for the cutest clothes she could find for her limited bucks. The then-high school senior cast a practiced eye over the racks and nabbed…

Church apologizes for botched discipline case

By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist megachurch has made amends for disciplining a church member for leaving her husband after learning he is addicted to child pornography. In a face-to-face meeting June 3, Matt Chandler, pastor of The Village Church,…

Meeting in Ohio, SBC grapples with numerical decline

By Bob Allen The Southern Baptist Convention lost more than 200,000 members last year, according to statistics released just ahead of the 2015 SBC annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio. Annual statistics compiled by LifeWay Christian Resources, the convention’s publishing arm,…

Like it or not, most expect gay marriage will sweep the US

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Prosperity gospel Is war on the poor

Why Tony Campolo’s LGBTQ reversal is evangelicalism’s tipping point

The battle for First Christian Church of Florissant

Pope Francis meets Putin for a diplomatically difficult talk

Where is the fire?

By Molly T. Marshall Great movements arise out of passion. Whether it be concern for educating girls (Malala), eradicating the guinea worm (Carter Center), enhancing the lives of at-risk children (Edelman), empowering employees (Google) or energizing a moribund baseball team…

Ethics: Have you ever cheated on your taxes or your spouse?

[This is the fourth (ethics) of a nine-part series on empowering a faith community to impact the world. Already hospitality, evangelism, and missions have been explored.] Have you ever cheated on your taxes or your spouse? Have you ever disregarded…

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’