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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....

Abuse Victims Ask Court to Prosecute the Vatican

Judges asks why Oklahoma’s law on Sharia applies to only one religion

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship seeks search committee members

ATLANTA (ABP) — Elected leaders of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship are seeking names to consider for a search committee to recommend a replacement for the moderate Baptist organization’s retiring CEO. Daniel Vestal, executive coordinator of the Atlanta-based CBF since 1996,…

Baptists aid Syrian refugees pouring into Lebanon

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (ABP) – Thousands of Syrian refugees pouring into Lebanon in recent months are being met with Baptist aid. The Lebanese Society for Educational and Social Development and the Rahbe Baptist Church have coordinated receipt and spending of…

Passport begins week of online 9/11 reflections

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (ABP) – Ten years ago, leaders of the student and education ministry Passport felt that after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that pre-printed Advent devotions were suddenly out of date. They quickly produced replacement online devotions on a website…

Baptists minister to physical, spiritual needs caused by Texas wildfires

BASTROP, Texas (ABP) — Dan Franklin couldn’t even smell the scent of smoke Friday that entailed the destruction of about 1,500 homes, the burning of about 34,000 acres and the loss of two lives. The volunteer chaplain with the Texas…

Remembering 9/11 … 1973

By Leroy Seat Recent days have been full of newspaper articles and radio and TV programs about the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the United States. Much less was written about another 9/11 that occurred 28 years…

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

Abuse Victims Ask Court to Prosecute the Vatican

Judges asks why Oklahoma’s law on Sharia applies to only one religion

Cooperative Baptist Fellowship seeks search committee members

Baptists aid Syrian refugees pouring into Lebanon

Passport begins week of online 9/11 reflections

Baptists minister to physical, spiritual needs caused by Texas wildfires

Remembering 9/11 … 1973

Amish men jailed for refusing to display traffic safety triangle

Presbyterians urged to divest from companies doing business with Israel

Japan quake anniversary met with prayers, chanting

Muslims Petition To Ban Islamic Law In State Courts

James Dobson Injured in Horseback Riding Fall

Together for Hope marks 25 years by asking, “How do you write the future?”

Who Decides War and Peace? Lebanon After the New Regional Agreement

54 Countries, One Survey, A Lot of Religion

From ‘feigele’ to free: What does it mean to be LGBTQ+ and Orthodox?

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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