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Woes persist at Georgia Baptist college

By Bob Allen The week after Brewton-Parker College President Ergun Caner resigned citing the emotional and physical toll of his son’s recent suicide, a vice president said he was fired after refusing to resign. C.B. Scott, vice president of alumni…

In Los Angeles, Muslim women find empowerment in female-only Friday prayers

Pastor Joshua Harris, an evangelical outlier, heads to mainstream seminary

‘Halal In The Family’ Web series to fight Islamophobia with comedy

China tells U.S. it’s against Obama meeting Dalai Lama

Fire damages church led by controversial pastor Henry Lyons

Kick’em out: Why it’s gotten so hard to work together

By Kyle Henderson The pool of churches which can and will work together is getting smaller. It looks like the pools will eventually shrink to puddles and then dry up completely. When I was a kid we loved to play…

More rubato for our faith

Does your faith need a little more rubato and a little less strictness? All of us—and most all of creation—are designed in such a way that we have a solid framework of something behind us, just like a soft sofa…

Altitude is a key factor in future stories of Christian ministry

For many years I have helped congregations and denominational organizations write their future story of ministry. Generally these stories look a decade into the future to imagine what their ministry might be like. It pulls movements forward rather than pushes…

The culture wars come to Georgia

My home state of Georgia is the setting for the latest battle in America’s never-ending culture wars. The event that ignited this fresh fight was Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed’s decision to fire Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran for, according to…

Christianity at a crossroads in America

Christianity, along with other faith traditions, is at a crossroads in American life. Many sociologists see the road leading us to a European secularism, where mostly-empty churches are monuments to the hollowed-out faith of the masses, and serve as reminders…

Leadership and bearing pain

Termination meetings — those uncomfortable sessions in which an administrator tells an employee that he or she is being fired — are primarily shaped by legal considerations these days. The instructions from the HR office are clear: Make sure that…

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?