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,...

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SCOTUS got this one right

The Supreme Court ruled Monday in a tight decision (5-4) that the town of Greece, NY did not violate the Establishment Clause in choosing to open their legislative sessions with prayer in spite of the fact that the prayers were overwhelmingly offered…

Alliance Baptists address racial justice, reconciliation in annual gathering

By Relma Hargus The Alliance of Baptists went north for its annual gathering this year, taking its theme of racial and economic justice to the church where in 1926 Hilda Libby Ives became the first woman ordained as a Christian…

Ceremonial prayer

By Bill Leonard “Ceremonial prayer” — that’s what Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called the rite that the high court approved by a 5-4 vote in the case of Town of Greece v. Galloway, a ruling that allowed the town…

Supreme Court prayer ruling may spur new alliances

Why Reinhold Niebuhr supported Israel

Nigerian cardinal: Schoolgirls’ abduction is shameful

More U.S. Latinos shift and drift outside the Catholic Church

English schools investigated for role in Islamist takeover plot

The glass ceiling for women in ministry only slightly cracked

I recently returned from the Exponential church planting conference in Orlando where I spent time thinking about women in ministry; especially women in church planting. I sat in on all three workshop sessions led or co-led by a woman in…

Which Jesus do you follow?

By Miguel De La Torre As an ordained Southern Baptist minister of the Good News, I am instilled with a mission to evangelize those held in Satan’s grip, in the hope that they repent from their sins and find salvation…

Labyrinth transforms prayer life, Baptists say

By Jeff Brumley Rita Martin knows a thing or two about prayer as a lifelong Baptist who raised a family in the church. Or at least she thought she did until this past Maundy Thursday when she participated in a…