It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...
By Scott Dickison My wife and I recently received a note from the church where our 1-year-old son is enrolled in a Mother’s Morning Out program encouraging parents not to dress the children in Halloween-themed attire. Guess he will just…
Do you want to die well? Do you want to die with dignity? I suspect that desire resides in the hearts of just about everyone. But, what does it really mean to die well? I’ll admit, at 32 and healthy,…
By George Henson The key to creating or maintaining congregational harmony isn’t for pastors to avoid conflict, but rather to face them squarely, an expert on church conflict told ministry leaders recently. And that’s because conflict is inevitable anywhere human…
By Bob Allen A Mercer University professor’s one-year assignment as interim president of a Baptist seminary in Liberia has been extended through 2016. Richard Wilson, chair of the Christianity department at Mercer’s main campus in Macon, Ga., arrived Jan. 4…
By Bob Allen An African-American Baptist convention born out of the 1960s struggle for civil rights has denounced the television comedy “Black Jesus” and is mobilizing members to join a petition drive asking network officials to take the program off…
By Bob Allen Rather than speculating about end-times theology, directors of the Alliance of Baptists issued a statement Oct. 17 framing world events like ISIS, Ebola and protests in Ferguson, Mo., in a message of hope. Meeting amid headlines including…
By David Gushee Follow David:@dpgushee Decades ago, theologian H.R. Niebuhr wrote that the first question of ethics is not “what should I do?” but “what is going on here?” He was on to something. So — what is in fact going on…
