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AI is being used to abuse children, and we can do something about it

Last May, congress passed the Take It Down Act, requiring websites to remove “nonconsensual intimate visual depictions” of identifiable individuals. This includes both real and AI-generated content. But this law only addresses content publication, not the various ways in which...

VITAL SIGNS: How to ruin a sermon

Healthy churches are marked by engaging worship. Engaging worship is nearly always marked by excellent preaching. Good preaching comes in a myriad of forms in a multitude of settings. Don’t let anyone fool you: there is no one way to preach…

OPINION: At home in the 17th century

Seventeenth century Baptists would have known exactly what was happening when two Rowan County, N.C., state legislators recently proposed a resolution, affirmed by 11 other legislative colleagues, that declared that the United States Constitution does not “prohibit states or their…

LEADERSHIP LINK: Does your church need an administrator?

I sometimes recall with nostalgia that courageous country church that called me as its college-student pastor. This group of deeply committed Christians allowed me to gain valuable experience and also served to mentor me since many of them knew more…

Despite biblical injunctions to the contrary, Christians remain obsessed with end times

Just because Jesus told his disciples God alone knows when he will return, that hasn’t prevented 2,000 years of Christian speculation. “Some have said: ‘Jesus just said we can’t know the day or the hour. But that doesn’t mean we…

As they turn 150, Seventh-day Adventists still praying for the Apocalypse

WASHINGTON (RNS) — In the past 150 years, Seventh-day Adventists have built one of Christianity’s most inventive and prosperous churches — while praying for the world to end as soon as possible. A small band of believers has mushroomed to…

Beneath the stereotypes, a stressful life for preachers’ kids, say some who’ve lived it

(RNS) — The day Franklin Graham was born, he received a telegram. “Welcome to this sin-sick world,” the Western Union message said, “and to the challenge you have to walk in your daddy’s footsteps.” It didn’t take long for Graham,…

EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida learns about fresh expressions from an unlikely source

Dear Jimmy, Well, its Sunday and Uncle Orley and I are at church waitin’ with one of the Howe young’uns for his folks to come back and get him. Today all the Howe daughters and sons and grandkids came to…

A letter to the SBNR

By Amy Butler Dear Spiritual But Not Religious Friends, Are your ears burning? You’re causing quite a stir in my circles these days. Many of my colleagues claim you are the biggest challenge of the church today. You probably didn’t…

B.H. Carroll Institute shifting leaders

By Ken Camp Bruce Corley announced plans to resign as president of the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute, effective after the October meeting of the school’s governing board. “This step comes after careful reflection and prayer,” said Leon Leach, chair of…

An American experiment: 250 years of trying

10 reasons America is not a ‘Christian nation’

American Dominion traces deep roots of Seven Mountain Mandate

Lindsey Graham and the history of ‘widow’s succession’

VITAL SIGNS: How to ruin a sermon

OPINION: At home in the 17th century

LEADERSHIP LINK: Does your church need an administrator?

Despite biblical injunctions to the contrary, Christians remain obsessed with end times

As they turn 150, Seventh-day Adventists still praying for the Apocalypse

Beneath the stereotypes, a stressful life for preachers’ kids, say some who’ve lived it

EDITORIAL: Aunt Ida learns about fresh expressions from an unlikely source

A letter to the SBNR

B.H. Carroll Institute shifting leaders

Assn. drops church with accused pastor

Pope Francis: Worker exploitation ‘goes against God’

Congressman Paul Ryan now supports gay adoption

European Evangelicals Draw A Clear Distinction From Their American Counterparts

Clergy serving among the ruins of Venezuela

The Deep Spiritual History of AI

Israel’s parliament approves laws to enshrine exemption of ultra-Orthodox men from military service

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An American experiment: 250 years of trying

10 reasons America is not a ‘Christian nation’

American Dominion traces deep roots of Seven Mountain Mandate

Lindsey Graham and the history of ‘widow’s succession’