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Women ministers gaining ground in Baptist life, report indicates

TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Women are making slow but steady progress into ministry positions in Baptist churches, according to a report released June 22 by Baptist Women in Ministry. The fourth State of Women in Baptist Life report by the…

Anniversary speaker labels CBF a ‘movement of the Spirit’

TAMPA, Fla. (ABP) — Two decades after forming as a “new spiritual home place” for disenfranchised Southern Baptists, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship now is “called as a movement of the Spirit,” the keynote speaker at a 20th anniversary celebration banquet…

Reduced financial contributions still a problem, CBF council members told

TAMPA, Fla. — Sagging financial contributions remain a challenge for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, members of the group’s Coordinating Council were told June 22. Current receipts are running at about 82 percent of the $14.5 million budget for 2010-2011, said…

BJC defends limits on lawsuits against religious organizations

WASHINGTON (ABP) – The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty joined other groups in a legal brief arguing that a teacher fired by a Christian school should not be allowed to sue her former employer under the Americans with Disabilities…

Christian convictions are not the law of the land

By Zachary Bailes “That is aimed, number one, at Sharia law,” Land said. “The imposition of Sharia law as an alternative at any level of the American legal system –- let me be clear about this -– violates the Constitution…

Global evangelical leaders: church declining in North, surging in South

Americans distinguish between politicians’ financial, sexual failings

AFA’s Bryan Fischer accuses SBC of pandering to gays, illegal aliens

TUPELO, Miss. (ABP) – A prominent conservative social activist has accused the Southern Baptist Convention of pandering to gays and illegal immigrants. Bryan Fischer Bryan Fischer, radio talk show host and spokesman for the American Family Association, commented in a…

What will we do with failure?

By Bill Wilson Failure. Just saying the word in the same sentence as our name makes us nervous. Far too often, failure and ministry go together. Frequently, failure is the last word for ministers and churches. Many ministers’ inner life…

Scapegoating behind anti-immigration laws

By Roger Olson Yet another state, populated largely by people who consider themselves Christians, has apparently criminalized Christian behavior toward illegal immigrants. At least according to the Associated Press which says in an article published in my local newspaper June…

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?

Women ministers gaining ground in Baptist life, report indicates

Anniversary speaker labels CBF a ‘movement of the Spirit’

Reduced financial contributions still a problem, CBF council members told

BJC defends limits on lawsuits against religious organizations

Christian convictions are not the law of the land

Global evangelical leaders: church declining in North, surging in South

Americans distinguish between politicians’ financial, sexual failings

AFA’s Bryan Fischer accuses SBC of pandering to gays, illegal aliens

What will we do with failure?

Scapegoating behind anti-immigration laws

Japanese interfaith group opposes U.S. bases on Okinawa

Controversy follows Baptist theologian to North Texas

JD Vance Fears ‘In This House We Believe In’ Signs Are ‘Butchering’ His Personal Faith

A Pastoral Response To Our Immigrant Neighbors

These Catholic sisters want to start a new order with a difficult mission: Helping clergy abuse survivors

How to Revitalize a 400-Year-Old Church

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