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When we — Baptists and Methodists — were all evangelical

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...

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The rise and fall and rise again of Joel Gregory

Imagine you’re a big-shot Hollywood producer, and you’re making a movie about the life of iconic Baptist preacher/pastor/professor Joel Gregory. You bet the film on casting character actor Paul Giamatti, who is 95 percent perfect to play Gregory. Giamatti mirrors…

Al Mohler decries “Gungor” controversy

By Alan Bean Al Mohler has adapted nicely to our twenty-first century media revolution.  He even doespodcasts. Al isn’t hip.  Not even a little bit.  But he talks about hip people, albeit with disapproval. I can’t imagine the venerable Roy…

California Baptists expel ‘third way’ church

This story hs been updated with a statement from New Heart Community Church. By Bob Allen A statewide affiliate of the Southern Baptist Convention has booted a member church for advocating a “third way” of neither condemnation nor full embrace…

Global Women head stepping down after eight years

By Bob Allen Cindy Dawson will step down Oct. 31 after eight years as executive director of Global Women, a woman-to-woman missions organization based in Birmingham, Ala., with international partnerships addressing sex trafficking, clean water, maternal health, education and economic development….