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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...

The last time I saw Dallas

I’ll be going to Dallas, Texas next week to represent Smyth & Helwys Publishing at the General Assembly of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF). I’m looking forward to it. They’re my people. The upcoming trip has put me in mind…

Connecting faith and sports can be challenging, says seminary professor

By Jeff Brumley John White has competed against some of the world’s top athletes — and ministered to still more of them. “I raced against [future three-time Tour de France winner] Greg LeMond once and he would never know this, but…

Baptist judge orders recognition of gay marriage

By Bob Allen An Arkansas judge who ruled June 9 the state must recognize 500 same-sex marriages that were performed during a six-day window in May 2014 moonlights as a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship pastor and is a well-known speaker at…

Pope Francis urges peace on visit to Sarajevo, ‘Jerusalem of Europe’

Students find a framework for saying ‘yes’ to God’s call

by Greg Jarrell Students exploring a spiritual vocation — and looking to discover ways to say “yes” to God’s call — say that a summer program just beginning in five locations around the country will provide the framework they need to begin…

Duggar PR crisis Is being handled by Huckabee’s political adviser

Evangelicals hope to find candidates in the pulpit

Pope Francis should take a tough tone with Vladimir Putin, says US diplomat

Arkansas judge tells state to recognize hundreds of same-sex marriages

Ted Cruz’s pick for Tennessee chairman draws fire from Islamic activists

A summer of Baptist fiestas

By Nora O. Lozano I have been a Baptist since I was born, and due to location changes I have had the privilege of relating to different Baptist groups: the Mexican National Baptist Convention during my early years; the American…

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’