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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...

Leaning in together

By Molly T. Marshall Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has created quite a stir with her national best seller Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. She rightly applauds the social change over the past 50 years since the…

Not budgets, programs, and projects

I am always amazed as I visit some of our smaller communities at the way God is at work through the congregations. Too often we tend to look at the numbers and the programs. We lose the story of the…

The New Calvinism in the SBC

By Jerry Faught The recent Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting featured a 3,500 word report from the Calvinism Advisory Committee, chaired by David Dockery of Union University. To the surprise of no one the committee essentially declared “we agree far…

BWAid solicits aid funds for U.S.

By Bob Allen Baptists worldwide have been asked to donate funds to assist people recovering from a series of disasters in the United States. Baptist World Aid, the relief-and-development arm of the Baptist World Alliance, announced an appeal June 24…

The Baptist bearing robes and incense

President Carter says Catholic Church should ordain women

Bono: David sang the blues and Jesus did some punk rock

NAACP’s William Barber emerges as leader of Moral Monday protests

Pope says ‘Christians cannot be anti-Semitic’

Getting straight about that serpent-dove thing

Most readers of this blog would identify as moderate Baptists who view their more ideological brothers and sisters as well-intentioned, but misguided, extremists. Moderates are sensible mediators between extremes who eschew both conservative and liberal forms of group-think, political correctness,…

Busy, historic General Assembly for CBF

By Jeff Brumley General Assembly 2013 is expected to be one of the busier – and more historic – gatherings in CBF’s history, as participants welcome a new leader and vote to significantly streamline the organization to meet current and…

Is yoga instruction religious? Court case may decide

SAN DIEGO (RNS) — In an elementary school classroom with an American flag draped over one wall, a couple dozen students rose to standing positions. Then they shifted into poses called “volcano part one,” “silent gorilla,” and “rag doll.” Some…

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