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Supreme Court runs on vibes and grievances, new book contends

Supreme Court justices claim their rulings are based on originalism, textualism or other lofty sounding legal theories. But a new book claims the court’s conservative majority decides cases with “a mishmash of law, vibes, fantasy, facts and ‘alternative facts.’” “At…

Are you offering a ‘kids’ table’ for single adults at your church?

My best friend here in Dallas got dressed up and went to a church dinner this weekend in someone’s home. He paid $300 for his seat at the 10-course meal as part of a church fundraiser. You need to know…

New book explores the good, the bad and the weepy about church camp

Years attending and later working at Christian summer camps left Cara Meredith feeling somewhat ambivalent about letting her own children experience what is essentially an evangelical rite of passage. So perplexing was the question that it helped inspire her new…

Jesus, the Holy Spirit and ‘more of the same’

For the past 30 years, I have made it a practice to read the four Gospels all the way through, every word, about three or four times a year; all of which must add up to somewhere around a hundred…

You can’t love Jesus and hate immigrants

In the years leading up to World War II and the Holocaust, large numbers of German Christians condemned people who differed from them politically, theologically, nationally or ethnically. In the midst of that dangerous context, one offbeat newspaper dared to…

The kingdom within: Reclaiming the sacred in an age of contradiction

“The kingdom of God is inside you, and all around you, not in mansions of wood and stone. Split a piece of wood, and I am there; lift a stone, and you will find me.” — Gospel of Thomas, Saying…

What can we learn from Jesus’ encounter with the Rich Young Ruler?

“And looking at him, Jesus felt a love for him and said to him, ‘One thing you lack: go and sell all you possess and give to the poor, and you shall have treasure in heaven; and come follow me’”…

This week on BNG podcasts

After a several-months break, Benjamin Cole and Mark Wingfield are back with a new episode of “Stuck in the Middle with You.” This week’s new episode is one of two recorded in anticipation of the June Southern Baptist Convention annual…

It’s time for evangelicals to leave Anglicanism

“Don’t give me a jar of piss and then tell me it’s Memaw’s sweet tea.” My East Texas-raised father uttered these words when I tried to explain away my failing grade in freshman high school biology. I told him I…

Here’s the back story on the 26 people Trump named to Religious Liberty Commission advisory boards

A Southern Baptist megachurch pastor and a controversial Baylor University professor are among 26 people named by President Donald Trump to serve on three advisory boards of his Religious Liberty Commission. Two weeks ago, Trump named members of the main…

PRRI: Growth of the religiously unaffiliated is slowing

The growth of the “nones” may have decelerated but has not stopped, according to a new study by Public Religion Research Institute. While the share of religiously unaffiliated in the U.S. has been widely reported to have plateaued, the PRRI…

Shall the fundamentalists yet win?

In 1922, a Baptist minister serving a Presbyterian church in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village kicked a hornet’s nest with his Sunday message. Far from the first, or for that matter, last Baptist preacher to do so, he pleaded to those packed…

What you’re not seeing: Tens of thousands of children separated from parents

The way we were

Talarico’s pastor pushes back on Daily Wire’s claims

Spiritual formation is how churches learn whom to hear