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Evangelicals are mean to kids, beginning at home

Every Father’s Day weekend, complementarian women post on social media about how thankful they are for their husbands’ loving leadership. Photos of confidently smiling men who think the gospel requires them to be the heads of their households grace our…

Does Jeff Iorg really believe Christa Brown and Tiffany Thigpen are liars?

The most persistent denier of a sexual abuse crisis in the Southern Baptist Convention now says SBC Executive Committee President Jeff Iorg agrees with him that the stories of two key abuse survivors are false. In a June 18 email…

Great Rivers Fellowship empowers churches with community engagement grants

Great Rivers Fellowship, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship regional organization made up of communities in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi, has awarded eight Community Engagement grants to local communities. These grants totaled $7,750 and support diverse local initiatives. Local churches and communities…

Building a world without sexual harm — one small act at a time

Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been charged with rape and human trafficking. Dan Norris, Labor MP and mayor of the West of England, has been arrested for rape, child abduction and child sex offences. And comedian Russell Brand appeared in court last month over…

GOP and Christian legal group battle ‘Censorship-Industrial Complex’

“I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America,” President Donald Trump told Congress in March. “It’s back.” He was referring to one of the many executive orders he signed on inauguration day: “Restoring Freedom of…

On No Kings Day, we passed the baton

Carrying my poster, I arrived early to meet Pam at her church, St. Paul A.M.E. on MLK Boulevard. I sat on a low wall to wait for her. The passenger window of the car parked in front of me opened….

Republican budget would tax remittances to families abroad

Foreign nationals working in the U.S. will have to pay a 5% excise tax on money they send family in other countries if Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” becomes law. Known as remittance transfers, the transactions are a crucial way…

Most books banned from Naval Academy are back on shelves

Nearly all the 381 books pulled from the U.S. Naval Academy Library in April are back on the shelves after the Pentagon instituted its own criteria for banning books. “I am thrilled to report that, as a result of the…

On drowning Anabaptists and tarring/feathering governors

Baptist scholar William R. Estep wrote in 1963: “If the Anabaptists teach us anything, it is that those who fear freedom and court the governments of this world in the interest of a more moral or ‘Christian’ state are placing…

Majority of Americans oppose ‘big beautiful bill’

President Donald Trump’s “big beautiful bill” passed by the U.S. House of Representatives is opposed by far more Americans than approve of it, according to new research from Navigator. The national polling firm surveyed a representative sample of American voters…

Ministry jobs and more

Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…

International student visa ban threatens bilingual mission school

Carla Cardoza, president of United Methodist-related Lydia Patterson Institute in El Paso, Texas, has been telling this story at annual conference sessions across the denomination’s South Central Jurisdiction since May 28: “Karla is a rising senior at LPI. She has…

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone