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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....

Sovereign Grace Ministries, riven by conflict, seeks to change

Poll: Mormon Presidential Candidates Face Bias

Murfreesboro mosque gets bomb threat

North Carolina CBF rallies around pastor during deportation threat

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — Thirty-three people wearing “I Support Hector” badges packed Immigration Court in Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 2 for the hearing of a Hispanic church planter facing possible deportation. The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina worked hard to…

President Jimmy Carter: Led By Faith

Brunson calls Baptists to good works on a grand scale

Judge grants Villanueva motion to stay in US

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (ABP) — An immigration judge granted a motion Sept. 2 allowing a Baptist church planter facing possible deportation to Mexico to remain in the United States. Martha and Hector Villanueva share emotional moments with friend Alma Benitez, wife…

Church embezzler gets 44 months in prison

MORRISTOWN, Tenn. (ABP) – A 70-year-old widow who stole $1.5 million as financial secretary of a Baptist church was sentenced Sept. 1 to 44 months in prison. Under federal sentencing guidelines, Barbara Whitt, who pleaded guilty in February to bank…

Irene, Michele and theological missteps

By Bob Setzer In the wake of every natural disaster, some public figure feels compelled to utter a theological interpretation of events that is clear, compelling, and fundamentally wrong. This time it was presidential contender Michele Bachmann who told a…

Movie review: ‘The Tree of Life’

By Stuart Lamkin The Tree of Life is a piece of art. It tries to tell the story of life — at times beautiful, mysterious, moving and confusing. Writer and director Terrence Malick has made only four other movies over…

Duke McCall at 97

By David Wilkinson Thirty years ago McCall, who turned 97 on Sept. 1, was a household name in Southern Baptist life. As president or chief executive officer, he had led the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee, transformed a Bible institute…

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