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Finding Christ in popular culture

By Robert Dilday When the Academy Award ceremony airs Feb. 26, an unusual film that has bemused some, exhilarated others and drawn wide-ranging comments tops the list of nominees. Brad Pitt and Laramie Eppler star in Terrence Malick’s film, Tree…

Looking for Christian themes in movies? Here are critics’ choices

By Robert Dilday Hollywood’s century-old repertoire of films offers a rich lode of Christian themes, say some observers who see value in mining for them. While the Oscar-nominated Tree of Life may be opaque, it’s “one of the most powerful…

Viewed through the lens of the gospel, films can be profoundly theological

When the Academy Award ceremony airs Feb. 26, at the top of the list of nominees is an unusual film that has bemused some, exhilarated others and drawn wide-ranging comments. Tree of Life lends itself to a variety of interpretations,…

Looking for Christian themes in movies? Here are a few criticsâ€™ choices

Hollywood’s century-old repertoire of films offers a rich lode of Christian themes, say some observers who see value in mining for them. While the Oscar-nominated Tree of Life may be opaque, it’s “one of the most powerful treatments of explicitly…

BTSR near $1 million campaign goal

By Robert Dilday Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond is only $100,000 shy of reaching its $1 million matching gifts goal, seminary administrators announced Feb. 14, adding they expected the campaign to be successfully concluded. BTSR president Ron Crawford (left) and…

Pastor’s killer still unfit to stand trial

By Bob Allen An Illinois judge ruled Feb. 10 that a man accused of murdering a Southern Baptist preacher in his pulpit nearly three years ago is mentally unfit to stand trial. Madison County Circuit Judge Richard Tognarelli said there…

EDITORIAL: The hope of glory vs. the demons within

The music world was stunned by the death of 48-year-old Whitney Houston, whose voice inspired millions with its range and purity. Her greatest hit, arguably, was I Will Always Love You, her version of which became the top hit in…

HERITAGE: The lady had flair

Nell Collins Thompson had flair. She exuded it. She could have patented it. Her own inimitable style was upon everything she touched. She used her flair in every phase of her life — her home, her classroom, her church work,…

TRENDING: The elderly become elders

Between the end of World War II in 1945 (returning scores of men to America) and the advent of the birth control pill in 1964 came the largest population boost in history, the famed Baby Boom. Sociologists call this the…

OUT LOUD

“When you are so prohibitively in debt to one particular lobbying group, that is a great concern. And it will be a great concern to many Southern Baptists because we believe gambling is a scourge. … And we certainly don’t…

VITAL SIGNS: Worship at Gate A3

Every congregation needs to be engaged in a healthy conversation about worship. Hopefully, it is at the heart of your identity, calendar and thought-life. As you face the future, one powerful question you must wrestle with is: “Of what value…

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone