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Let’s tell a new story: Juneteenth and the Fourth of July

Note: This post is an excerpt from a chapter titled “Juneteenth” in the author’s forthcoming book, Backslide: Reclaiming a Faith and a Nation After the Christian Turn Against Democracy, which will be published September 8 and is now available for pre-order....

Panel Busts Immigration Myths, Questions System

Church leaders praying for trapped miners and familie

South Carolina CBF hosting Brian McLaren

COLUMBIA, S.C. (ABP) – The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of South Carolina and Baptist studies program at Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary are sponsoring four sessions over two days with Brian McLaren, a popular author and leader in the “emergent” church. Brian…

Church building homes for victims of spring tornadoes

JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (ABP) – A Baptist church near the path of one of the tornadoes that swept across Alabama in April is halfway toward a goal of building 10 houses for people who lost homes and did not have insurance….

Running on faith

By Bill Leonard In Faith of Our Fathers, Edwin Gaustad wrote that, “In 1800 when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson engaged in the first wide open presidential campaign in American history, Jefferson’s political enemies seized the occasion to abuse and…

Taking a leap of faith

By Elizabeth Evans Hagan “Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. By faith, Abel.… By faith, Noah.… By faith, Abraham.… By faith, Isaac.… By faith, Jacob.… By faith, Joseph.” And the list…

Sixteenth Street Baptist Church unveils new marker at bomb site in Birmingham

Poll: Canadians split over whether religion does more harm than good

Baseball player asks people to go back to church

Violence taking toll on Syria’s Christians

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) – Many Christians have fled Syria as a result of public demonstrations and violent government crackdowns in the Middle Eastern country over the past several months, officials of the Baptist World Alliance reported Sept. 14. BWA…

Wake Forest endowed chair honors Baptist leaders

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (ABP) – Church history professor Bill J. Leonard has been named the first James and Marilyn Dunn Chair of Baptist Studies at the Wake Forest University School of Divinity, officials at the school in Winston-Salem, N.C., announced Sept….

Clergy seek clemency for death-row inmate

ATLANTA (ABP) – More than 3,000 clergy and religious leaders from various faith traditions have endorsed a letter seeking clemency for a death-row inmate scheduled for execution in Georgia Sept. 29. Troy Davis Organizers plan to hand-deliver the letter to…

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