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Americans value freedom but there are differences on what it means

America’s 250th birthday prompted researchers at Navigator to ask Americans how they define America, patriotism and what our country should aspire to. The result was 82% of Americans across all generations saying they believe freedom is an extremely important value,...

Southern Baptist church takes ‘third way’ on homosexuality

By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist church in California drew scrutiny from denominational leaders and observers after voting May 18 not to dismiss a pastor who said he had changed his mind about homosexuality being a sin. New Heart Community…

Lessons before dying: Reflections from the bedside

By David Gushee Follow David: @dpgushee In a spring in my life filled with illness, dying and death, here are a few hard lessons I have learned. To borrow from novelist Ernest Gaines, let’s call them “lessons before dying.” Perhaps…

As rockets fall

By Heather Mustain As I prepared myself for a recent family trip to the Holy Land, I made sure to do all the things which, as a missions minister, I preach to others preparing for any short-term experience: Study the…

Rolling Stones’ first Israeli concert delayed to accommodate religious fans

Prof. says beard, beer got him canned at CSU

Jack Graham celebrates 25 years as pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church

North Korea sentences missionary to life of hard labor

Did the Southern Baptist ‘conservative resurgence’ fail?

Beware of the backfire effect

“Daddy long-leg spiders are one of the most poisonous spiders but their fangs are too short to bite humans.” “All vaccines are deadly to all children.” You may heard those statements, but those statements are not true. Despite facts that disprove popular myths, some folks…

For CBF Bahamas and its leader, new tie means increased influence in Caribbean

By Jeff Brumley Baptist John McIntosh knows it’s an honor to have been selected for the Bahamas Council of Bishops, whose members advocate for social justice and help establish churches across the island nation. But he knows something else, too:…

After 1,200 loads of laundry and 1,800 showers, relief efforts along border wrap up

By Ken Camp In the past two weeks, Baptist disaster relief workers washed more than 1,200 loads of laundry and made available about 1,800 showers to unaccompanied Latin American children detained along the Mexican border after they entered the United…

3 views on Donald Trump held by American Christians

US megachurches report strong rebound from pandemic

Baptists need to speak up again for religious liberty

What in hell became of heaven?