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Church gives away $1 million to stop evictions

Not every headline out of Washington, D.C., or Northern Virginia is about division, Donald Trump or American dysfunction. Every now and then, the light breaks through the legislation and press conferences. Just miles from the corridors of power, in Alexandria,…

The Bible is not just a white man’s book

You’ve been told the Bible was a white man’s book. You’ve seen the images — pale-skinned angels, a European Jesus, blonde-haired apostles. Church walls lined with Renaissance art have shaped a quiet but powerful assumption over time, that holiness somehow…

Confessions of a cancer caregiver

After a lifetime of trying to follow Jesus, the enormity of his teachings becomes tangibly real when cancer comes into your life. It’s one o’clock in the afternoon, and my husband, John, is asleep. He’s no slacker; he’s recovering from…

When baptism becomes a carnival

In some evangelical circles, baptism is a spectator sport. It’s always about which pastor or church can baptize the most people or put on the most extravagant baptismal super event. Thus, when Mark Francey, pastor and co-founder of Oceans Church…

Resurrection’s joy ascends, but so, too, its detractors

For many years the joy of Easter Sunday’s resurrection observance has been contested by the continuing powers of death. Easter’s portable feast (due to its lunar calculation) means it typically falls in the vicinity of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s execution by the…

Letter to the Editor: I was there

Dear Editor: I was there on the night of Sept. 20, 1990, when Herb Reynolds met with a small group of trustees to present a plan to transform Baylor’s governing board into a self-perpetuating body, independent of Baptist General Convention…

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