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Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...

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Online spiritual resources for observing Lent available

Resources to help observe the season of Lent are available online, from the Birmingham, Ala.-based Passport Inc., a Baptist congregation in Charlottesville, Va., and the Baptist Center for Ethics. Journey to the Cross, a Lenten devotional series sponsored by Passport,…

Churches celebrate 200th with theatrical production

RALEIGH, N.C. — Two First Baptist churches sit across from each other on Capitol Square in Raleigh, N.C. One, on Wilmington Street, is attended mostly by African-American worshipers; the other, on Salisbury Street, is predominantly white. The two churches have…

Taking to the streets on Ash Wednesday

(RNS) — Five years ago, Teresa K.M. Danieley had an epiphany of sorts. If people can grab breakfast on the go or pay a bill from their cell phone, she thought, why shouldn’t they be able to get their ashes…

Lent for Baptists

By Jim Denison If you’re like me, you grew up in a Baptist church where Lent was a foreign word. Like all things Catholic, it was ignored if not rejected. In recent years, I have come to see the error…

Expert: Insurance system causes church-state tangle

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) — A Baptist church-state scholar says religious liberty concerns about new coverage mandates come with the territory in America’s employer-based health insurance system. Melissa Rogers, director of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at Wake Forest…

Why Baptists need Martha Stearns Marshall Month

By Kate Hanch Martha Stearns Marshall Month, sponsored by Baptist Women in Ministry each February, celebrates the voices of women in the pulpit. Martha Stearns Marshall lived during the 18th century. Along with her husband, she provided leadership and preaching…

Task force proposes new CBF funding plan

By Bob Allen A task force studying the future of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is recommending a new funding plan that moves decisions about how money is spent closer to the local church. Wrapping up a two-year process that included…