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Estranged for the holidays? You’re not alone

Although family togetherness characterizes the Christmas season, some of us may find ourselves relationally poorer this New Year. No one has died, and yet gifts are unsent and places are empty at the table. If this sounds familiar, you’ve got…

Make a resolution to embrace your true self and the rest will fall into place

We live in a hyper-competitive society. Many of us tirelessly strive to keep up with the Joneses. As one year draws to a close and a new one begins, what do we have to show for it? Copious amounts of…

Jimmy Carter and the strength of fields

I’m thinking about the late poet James Dickey tonight as I reflect upon Jimmy Carter’s impact on my life. Dickey became famous for his terrifying 1970 novel Deliverance, about four suburban weekend warriors from Atlanta (Dickey’s hometown and mine) who…

Jimmy Carter was the most decent and respectable president of my lifetime

Heather Cox Richardson’s assessment about the life and career of President Jimmy Carter is commendable, yet incomplete. Richardson failed to mention that it was President Carter who led the transfer of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama….

Tucker Carlson seeing demons in his bedroom is not a good sign

Tucker Carlson claims he was “physically assaulted” by a demon in his bedroom. The deposed Fox News host made this news public in a documentary, Christianities?, hosted by John Heers and directed by Scooter Downey, an Eastern Orthodox Christian who served as…

Georgia relents on funding for Luther Rice

Georgia officials will allow Luther Rice College and Seminary to participate in the state’s financial aid programs. The reversal comes after the conservative school engaged Alliance Defending Freedom to sue the state. The change was announced Dec. 19, two months…

Mohler accuses Jimmy Carter of international crimes

One day after Jimmy Carter’s death, a prominent Southern Baptist theologian accused him of unspecified international crimes. Meanwhile, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention, Clint Pressley, offered a one-sentence summation of Carter’s death at age 100: “A remarkable man…

Love, faith and simplicity: Remembering our visit with President and Mrs. Carter

What is it like to visit in the home and the church of a former president? In the spring of 2012, my wife, Amanda, and I were blessed to spend a week in Plains, Ga., where I had been invited…

President Carter: The second half of life can be better than the first

When I learned former President Jimmy Carter’s health had died, memories began to unfold of when I met him during a chaotic season in my life nearly seven years ago. My memory is crystal clear on the events in my…

Jimmy Carter, a lifelong Baptist, left a legacy of faithfulness, compassion and justice

Baptist leaders are remembering President Jimmy Carter as a Christian example of faithfulness, compassion and justice — and as a staunch advocate of a traditional view of religious liberty. Carter, the nation’s 39th president, died Dec. 29 at age 100….

Previously published opinion pieces made a strong showing in this year’s Top 15

Baptist News Global’s leading opinion pieces this year revealed readers’ deep interest in issues ranging from religion and politics, religious freedom, evangelical reactions to the summer Olympics and all things Donald Trump. John MacArthur, the Los Angeles pastor known for…

When flat earthers and creationists find common ground

It was hyped as “The Final Experiment.” Led by pastor Will Duffy of Agape Kingdom Fellowship in Wheat Ridge, Colo., a group of people who believed in a flat earth and others who believed in a global earth traveled to Union…

Rise of American authoritarianism demands a choice, Perryman says

Shaving Dad goodbye

The Enhanced Games were another MAGA grift

It’s bad interpretation, not the Bible, limiting female pastors