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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Baptist disaster recovery gears up for summer

By Jeff Brumley Baptists with a combined hankering for travel and hard work are in luck as denominational disaster recovery organizations are beginning to issue their calls for help this spring and summer. American Baptist Churches USA has posted three…

Homelessness, grief and Holy Week

By Trey Lyon During this Holy Week a story keeps reappearing on my Facebook feed, the tale of the varying responses of an affluent community in North Carolina to a bronze statue of a reclining Jesus, cast to resemble a…

Discovering empty tombs

By Colin Harris You’d think Easter would be easy for a Sunday school teacher. After all, everybody knows what it is, most everybody shows up and nobody is likely to argue against it or to push for its repeal. It’s…

My right to be limited

By Arville L. Earl Some time ago a number of people – I among them — were troubled by a cell phone TV ad which projected the idea that, “I need, no, I have the right to be unlimited.” The…

Thinking inside the box

By Amy Butler The leadership art of “thinking outside the box” sounds progressive and cutting-edge. Everybody is talking these days about thinking outside the box, but the reality of the practice is not all that glamorous. I prefer the leadership…

Bill would name the Bible as La. state book

Movie review: ‘Heaven Is For Real’

Revival of American Calvinism

Christian leaders call for ending drug war

Can you question the Resurrection and still be a Christian?

Reflections of Easter

I sit in expectation of the horror of good Friday and in hopeful expectation of the work of Easter Sunday. This time of year is always the most contemplative for me, perhaps because it offers the fullest range of emotion…

Killing Jews

By Molly T. Marshall This past Sunday in Overland Park, Kan., a rabid anti-Semite, gun-wielding white supremacist drove into the parking lot at the Jewish Community Center with the intent to kill. And he succeeded. He shot a grandfather and…