Baptist News Global
Sections
Search Search this site

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...

Analysis

Featured

Calvin Miller, author, professor dies

By Bob Allen Calvin Miller, a longtime pastor, author and seminary professor, died Aug. 19, of complications from heart failure. Miller, 75,  research professor of divinity and distinguished writer in residence at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Ala., since 2007,…

A new year in theological education

By David Gushee Tonight I enter a classroom at McAfee School of Theology where 80 students will gather for the introductory course in Christian ethics. Fully one-third of our students will be in this one class. I have been thinking…

Number crunching and list keeping

Every couple years I put on my accountant hat and crunch numbers. Not the tax-paying accountant hat I put every year by April 15 and sweat over numbers. My number-crunching-accountant hat is the one I put on when I start…

Churches lag in social media oversight

By Jeff Brumley Sheryl Fancher likes to tell social media nightmare stories that make ministers cringe. Like the one about a pastor who posted derogatory remarks about church members on his Facebook page without realizing his account was set to…

WINN RECOMMENDS

When I Was a Child, I Read Books, Marilynne Robinson  (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) If Marilynne Robinson writes it, then it’s worth reading. With Pulitzer-wining Gilead, I fell in love with her fiction. Since then, I’ve been moved by her…

OPINION: Total recall

Science fiction is great for getting my mind churning. Sitting in the theater with an audience cheering the action and being impressed (or underwhelmed) by special effects is a great summer afternoon activity. But that’s not the whole reason it’s…

OPINION: The falconer

In his work The Second Coming, Irish poet William Butler Yeats shares the following bleak reflection: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.” Alex Gallimore Yeats penned…

HERITAGE: Heart music

Paul Honaker completes 38 years of music ministry at Bon Air Baptist Church in Richmond with a musical extravaganza set for 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 26.  It will be a time to celebrate a career devoted to people and…