Note: This article discusses suicide, child sexual abuse and domestic violence. It may be distressing for some readers. On June 30, child liberation theologian and abuse survivor advocate Ryan Stollar died by suicide, following a lengthy struggle with his...
Two seemingly unrelated stories recently captured my attention. One came my way while on an afternoon date with my wife. The other arrived the same night, as I sat down and read a book written by a long-term friend. By…
By Molly T. Marshall This week I attended a forum at a large African-American church in Kansas City, Mo., which assembled to probe and hopefully jumpstart King’s idea of the Poor People’s Campaign. The room was filled equally with black…
By Jeff Brumley While U.S. and Iranian diplomats make international headlines for negotiations on nuclear energy and weapons, a group of American and Iranian academics is quietly meeting in Tehran this week to heal the broken relationship between the two…
By Jeff Brumley While U.S. and Iranian diplomats continue to make international headlines for negotiations on nuclear energy and weapons, a group of American and Iranian academics are quietly meeting in Tehran this week to heal the broken relationship between…
By Bob Allen A former Baptist minister charged with his wife’s July murder was released late Friday afternoon from jail in Birmingham, Ala., on $100,000 bond. Local media reported that family members raised the bond amount set the day before…
By Bob Allen The Florida Baptist Convention plans to appeal a jury’s decision to award $12.5 million in damages in a lawsuit claiming Baptist officials didn’t check far enough into the background of a church planter convicted in 2007 of…
