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Taxpayer-funded By Dawn’s Early Light woos Trump’s evangelical base

Democratic presidents have targeted Christians and attacked religious freedom for decades, but President Donald Trump is making everything right, claims By Dawn’s Early Light, a taxpayer-funded movie starring Trump administration officials that praises the president’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian...

Are church camps and conference centers going away?

By George Bullard What is your most memorable experience at a church camp or conference center? Write it down quickly before these camps and conference centers disappear. My first remembrance of Ridgecrest Conference Center in western North Carolina is when…

Why we need a ‘Third Way’

By Alan Bean Danny Cortez is the pastor of a small Southern Baptist Church in La Mirada, Calif. A few weeks ago, he created a stir in Baptistland by calling for a “Third Way” on gay marriage. In a letter…

CBF a ‘denominetwork,’ Paynter says

By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is a “different way of being a Christian network,” Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter said in a report to the 2014 CBF General Assembly June 26 in Atlanta. “My elevator word for CBF is…

Baptist Women in Ministry celebrates 50th anniversary of first ordination

By Emily Holladay More than 400 people gathered June 25 to celebrate the work of Baptist Women in Ministry, particularly honoring the 50th anniversary of Addie Davis’ ordination by Watts Street Baptist Church in Durham, N.C. Davis was the first…

Mormon feminist: l’ll fight excommunication

India’s Hindu holy men to advise on Modi’s Ganges river cleanup

Creationism banned from UK schools

Detained on charges of forgery, Meriam Ibrahim is not yet free

Heidi Thompson named publisher and CEO of Religion News Service

CBF missions head calls for ‘new conversation’ about global missions

By Bob Allen The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s new missions head said June 25 the movement must re-imagine its global missions enterprise in ways similar to sweeping leadership and governance changes embraced since a two-year study of ways to better poise…

Shifts in CBF staff will expedite focus on priorities, says top leader

By Bob Allen Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Executive Coordinator Suzii Paynter said June 25 that plans to realign staff around priorities identified in a two-year study of the movement’s effectiveness are falling into place sooner than she expected when she was…

Will you be known when you die?

Years ago, there was a national ad campaign aimed at helping Americans understand the importance of going to church. One of my favorite ads in the series showed pallbearers carrying a casket in the front door of a church. The…

Eradicating DEI hasn’t made anything better

How Christian nationalism shows up in patriotic worship services

Dear Trump-supporting Christians, are you really OK with this?

‘Every Student. Every State’ campaign promotes school tax credit