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No political victory should be worth sacrificing moral integrity

Graham Platner’s campaign to dethrone Susan Collins as one of Maine’s two senators has come to an abrupt end following allegations of sexual assault. In an 11-minute-long video on X, the progressive firebrand launched a combative defense calling the allegations...

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Moderate Baptist leader Henry Crouch dies

By Bob Allen Alliance of Baptists founder William Henry Crouch, 84, died Dec. 29 at his home in Asheville, N.C. Crouch, pastor emeritus of Providence Baptist Church in Charlotte, N.C., was a member of the “Gatlinburg Gang,” a group convened…

Leap off the fiscal cliff

By Miguel De La Torre Sorry, but I don’t buy all the hype about going over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Why? Because the Bush-era tax cuts have harmed the poor. They believed that the wealthy should control the economy, for…

Making spiritual resolutions

By Jeff Brumley New Year’s resolutions usually involve vows of eating better, exercising more and maybe delving into the self-help section at the book store. But for others it also means renewing or reinventing efforts to get right with, or…

New Year’s resolutions

Are you a resolution maker?  Spiritual formation ministers LOVE resolution makers.  They keep us in business, really.  There’s something powerful and inviting about the chance to be different; to be better somehow.  Resolutions inspire the imagination with possibilities, like opening…

Baptist church reports image of Christ

By Jeff Brumley Reports of bleeding religious statues and spiritual images on water towers are usually associated with Catholic and Pentecostal churches. But now you can add some South Carolina Baptists to the mix. Care Baptist Church in Spartanburg recently alerted…

Workshop to address SBC decline

By Jeff Brumley Stemming the decline in Southern Baptist church membership will be the focus of a Jan. 29 workshop hosted by the Florida Baptist Convention and North American Mission Board in Brandon, Fla. The Florida Baptist Witness reported the…

The illnesses of American Christianity

In his important new magnum opus, A Thicker Jesus, my friend Glen Stassen suggests that Christianity is ill in America, but in two very different ways. One form of Christianity is ill, according to Stassen, because it is essentially theologically and…