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Americans value freedom but there are differences on what it means

America’s 250th birthday prompted researchers at Navigator to ask Americans how they define America, patriotism and what our country should aspire to. The result was 82% of Americans across all generations saying they believe freedom is an extremely important value,...

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CBF adjusts to changing missions landscape

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – The head of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s global missions operation says the movement remains committed to continue ministry with the poorest of the poor and the least evangelized while seeking to adapt new models in a…

Fiscal responsibility, with moral sanity

By David Gushee Progressive activists, including some of my Christian friends, have staged hunger strikes to dramatize their objections to proposed budget cuts in Congress that would affect the poor. I care deeply about such cuts, but I have not…

CBF leaders urging churches to keep ‘promises’

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (ABP) – While churches are giving more than ever to global missions through the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, many are doing it in new ways, prompting shortfalls in an annual offering needed to sustain fully funded missionaries already on…

A new ministerial role

By Bill Wilson For centuries the church has taken Ephesians 4 to heart and suggested that there are five primary roles for a minister to fulfill. Modern ministers are expected to embody these roles as needed and with a significant…

Holy Week hope

By R. Kevin Johnson During the past few weeks, Christian churches around the world have been engaging the scriptures during Lent. This season will lead to the commemoration of Jesus’ death and burial, and to the celebration of his divine…