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When we — Baptists and Methodists — were all evangelical

It may now seem surprising to many United Methodists, and even more Baptists, that for most of our histories in the United States, all Methodists and Baptists were regularly designated as evangelical denominations. The most important reason is that both...

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The gospel according to Cory Booker

If you’ve turned on the news in the last two days or scrolled through social media, you’ve heard the name Cory Booker. He’s the senator from New Jersey who just broke the 68-year-old record for the longest speech in U.S….

Raushenbush will keynote BNG/AWAB breakfast in St. Louis

Baptist News Global and the Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists will co-sponsor a breakfast featuring Paul Raushenbush during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly this June. Raushenbush, an ordained Baptist minister, leads Interfaith Alliance, a Washington, D.C.-based group founded…

Here’s who’s behind the war on empathy

When Donald Trump made his triumphal return to the White House, Joe Rigney could hardly contain his excitement. “The polls show that a significant majority of Americans favor the president’s goal,” the Baptist scholar noted, “but will we have the…

The U.S.-European alliance is dead

For a bunch of America First isolationists, Donald Trump and his merry band of busybodies sure seem to enjoy interfering in the independence and sovereignty of other countries. Not in Ukraine, mind you. The ally who needs us most is…

Texas Senate passes Ten Commandments bill

Unwilling to be outdone by its neighbor to the East, the Texas Senate has passed a bill that would require the Ten Commandments be posted in all public school classrooms. The Louisiana Legislature passed a similar law last year that…