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The transmogrification of the SBC: When Baptists no longer are Baptist

As the Southern Baptist Convention in its recent annual meeting has proved itself unreliably Baptist, it gives me pause to think about how quickly the transmogrification of this Baptist denomination into its ecclesiastical opposite has happened. Baptist folk often have...

Pastor in Central Asia faces year in prison

By Bob Allen A Baptist pastor in Kazakhstan faces up to a year in prison after refusing to pay a fine equivalent to about two months’ average salary for conducting worship without government permission, the international news service Forum 18…

A feast of ‘splendid nobodies’

By Molly T. Marshall Each fall I teach a course titled “Spirituality and Creativity” with the entering cohort in our create program, a rather up-tempo form of the master of divinity. We meet at Conception Abbey, a hospitable Benedictine monastery…

Boy wanders onto stage to hang out with Pope Francis

Of Gods and cubicles: Religion, the office and the law

Vatican’s pop culture guru backpedals tribute to rocker Lou Reed

Suzan Johnson Cook defends her work on religious freedom and explains why she left

Westboro Baptist Church defectors find grace in Montreal

Forever Changed #8: acts of love and sacrifice

I know that some of you are statisticians and so this is for you. Here is an example of a “donut of misery” that reflects my time in Iraq. Still a long way to go.I chuckle at the thought of…

The work of praise

By Ken Sehested The Blessed One does not stand in need of our praise; nor sits impatiently, impudently, awaiting our genuflection; nor strides restively, demandingly, threateningly, toward our cowering pose. No, none of this. There is no protection to be…

Immigration ‘personal,’ Baptist leader says

By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist Convention official says evangelicals are galvanizing around immigration reform because increasingly if affects someone they know. “A primary motivating factor for us is this has become personal for us,” Barrett Duke, vice president for…

AU defends contraceptive mandate

By Bob Allen A Southern Baptist business owner’s religious objection to the use of emergency contraceptives does not trump his employees’ right to obtain health insurance under Obamacare, civil liberties and religious groups said in papers filed Oct. 28 in…

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war