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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Board elects Hardage BGCT executive director

By Ken Camp At a called meeting today, the Baptist General Convention of Texas Executive Board elected David Hardage as executive director, effective Feb. 1. David Hardage Hardage—a veteran Texas Baptist pastor, associational leader and seminary development officer—succeeds Randel Everett,…

CBF workers report progress, need on second anniversary of Haiti quake

By Bob Allen While news media have long moved on to other stories like the pro-democracy Arab Spring and U.S. presidential election, the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake remains a present reality in Haiti, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship field workers reported on…

Lord’s Prayer Is Not Exclusively Christian, Attorney Tells Judge

Social conservative leaders to assess GOP candidates

OPINION: Warning, this sermon may be X-rated

Mega-church preacher Ed Young Jr. is challenging married couples in his church and beyond to conduct a “sexperiment” — to have sex for seven straight days as a way to improve their marriage. Videos promoting Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting…

Is Rick Santorum a Catholic or an evangelical? Yes.

NEW YORK (RNS) — Just days after Rick Santorum surged to a virtual tie for first in the Iowa caucuses, conservative activists at an invitation-only summit along the South Carolina coast were buzzing about the former Pennsylvania senator’s sudden and…

Supreme Court sides with churches in employment fights

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 11 unanimously threw its support behind a church school that fired a teacher, using a widely watched church-state case to bolster a legal doctrine that exempts religious institutions from some civil…

Beloved hymns carried King through troubled times

NEW YORK (RNS) — At 87, C.T. Vivian can still recall the moment, decades after the height of the civil rights movement. As he stood to conclude a meeting in his Atlanta home, Martin Luther King Jr. joined his activist…

Virginia judge rules against breakaway Episcopal parishes

NEW YORK (RNS) — Seven congregations that broke with the Episcopal Church in 2006 over its liberal policies on homosexuality are not entitled to keep parish property estimated to be worth millions, a Virginia judge ruled on Jan. 10. The…

Traveling repairmen help rebuild Baptist churches

MEMPHIS, N.Y. (RNS) — Brent Howard left his job as a home remodeler in Ohio in 2007, moved his young family into a trailer and began traveling to wherever he was needed. Over the past 4 1/2 years, he has…

Beloved hymns carried King through troubled times

NEW YORK (RNS) — At 87, C.T. Vivian can still recall the moment, decades after the height of the civil rights movement. As he stood to conclude a meeting in his Atlanta home, Martin Luther King Jr. joined his activist…

OPINION: Warning, this sermon may be X-rated

Mega-church preacher Ed Young Jr. is challenging married couples in his church and beyond to conduct a “sexperiment” — to have sex for seven straight days as a way to improve their marriage. Videos promoting Sexperiment: 7 Days to Lasting…