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I gave up fantasy football for my family

Way back in 2003, I was an unmarried rabid fantasy football and baseball fan. I spent anywhere between 10-20 hours a week tracking, reading, and researching statistics to build the ultimate fantasy football team. Sometimes, I would manage 3 or…

Richmond association seeks to clarify values, member criteria to bridge divide over homosexuality

RICHMOND — The Richmond Baptist Association has authorized a study committee to clarify the association’s values and restructure its membership model in an attempt to resolve deep division among its churches over a decision last spring not to dismiss an…

Saint G.K. Chesterton?

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — Christians and Jews are mounting campaigns for and against a path to sainthood for British writer G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936), one of the world’s best-known Catholic converts. Roman Catholic Bishop Peter Doyle of Northampton, where Chesterton lived…

Author Malcolm Gladwell describes return to faith

(RNS) — Author Malcolm Gladwell may not be known for writing on religion. His New York Times best-selling books The Tipping Point, Outliers, Blink and What the Dog Saw deal with the unexpected twists in social science research. But his…

LETTER: Those who embrace ‘wrong’ theology don’t support violence

Concerning the article about the conference in Washington to raise awareness of the plight of Palestinian Christians, I am one of those who embraces the “wrong” theology, that Israel belongs to the Jews. In Genesis 17:8, God said to Abraham,…

VIEWPOINT: Biblical sites abound in nation whose people embrace visitors from abroad

The most common question I got from people when they learned that I was traveling to Jordan was, “Do you think it is safe?” My response was, “I don’t think the Jordanian government would invite us unless they thought it…

FIRSTHAND: Preaching camp’s success leads to follow up this month

Several months ago, I was having a casual lunch with a minister colleague. Enjoying and appreciating this time of friendship and mutual support, we covered an array of topics. The one topic that began to dominate our conversation, and probably…

Some delight, other worry about effort to canonize British writer G.K. Chesterton

Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell describes return to faith while writing David and Goliath

Meet the nominals: Not synonymous with the ‘Nones,’ but claim religious identity in name only

(RNS) — They’re rarely at worship services and indifferent to doctrine. And they’re surprisingly fuzzy on Jesus. But it’s not just Jews. It’s a phenomenon among U.S. Christians, too. Meet the “Nominals” — people who claim a religious identity but…

Small churches currently unable to afford health insurance for staff may benefit from Obamacare

(ABP) — A new program designed to make it easier to buy health insurance for small businesses has potential to become a major source of medical coverage for church staff and employees, says Cooperative Baptist Fellowship Church Benefits Board President…

‘We’re in a fight,’ GuideStone Financial Services head O.S. Hawkins says in challenging health law

(ABP) — The Southern Baptist Convention agency that provides insurance for denominational employees filed a lawsuit Oct. 11 claiming the Affordable Care Act violates the religious liberty of faith-based organizations that do not meet the government’s narrow definition of “religious…

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