Baptist News Global

Faith, fear clash in middle Tennessee over proposed mosque

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (ABP) — Mike Smith, pastor of First Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn., received an anonymous letter this summer asking him to warn his congregation that a proposed new mosque near the city was part of “a long-range plan…

Living in the midst of fear challenging but possible, church leaders insist

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Peaceful living in a fear-provoking environment is challenging, even — maybe especially — for Christians. The unpredictable 21st century isn’t likely to settle down any time soon. Church leaders suggested several ways Christians can confront fear….

An inevitable test of Christian faith

By Marv Knox Twenty years ago, a good friend and neighbor languished in a hospital bed, dying of leukemia at age 36. He grew up in the Deep South, the product of a Christian home and a Baptist church. He…

Loving Muslims

By Joseph Perdue “Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away at its vital unity. Hate destroys a man’s sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly…

Fear not, Jesus said — but some Christians still do

Perfect love, wrote the Apostle John, casts out fear. For Christians, that simple maxim would seem to be an easy formula for stress-free living. But 2,000 years after those words were written, many disciples of Christ still find their lives…

Faith, fear clash in middle Tennessee over proposed mosque

Living in the midst of fear is challenging but possible, church leaders insist

RICHMOND, Va. — Peaceful living in a fear-provoking environment is challenging, even — maybe especially — for Christians. The unpredictable 21st century isn’t likely to settle down any time soon. Church leaders suggested several ways Christians can confront fear. Evaluate…

FAITH DIGEST

Happiness found in church, not shopping mall. Protestant and Catholic women in the United States have grown unhappier since stores have stayed open on Sundays, according to a study by economists from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Chicago’s…

Christian counselors say they encounter discrimination over views on homosexuality

WASHINGTON (RNS) — When are religious views on homosexuality an issue of religious and academic freedom, and when are they discrimination? That’s a question raised by counselors and educators across the country. Recently, a federal judge ruled against Jennifer Keeton,…

RIGHT or WRONG? Oil-spill outrage

As crude oil began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, everyone seemed to focus more on finger-pointing than on taking responsibility and finding solutions to the disaster. Where can a citizen lodge a legal complaint that would bring damage-control…

ANALYSIS: Does gay debate mirror church dispute on slavery?

WASHINGTON (RNS) — One group of Christians confidently proclaims that a plain reading of the Bible is a slam-dunk in their favor. The other side appeals to Scripture’s grand narrative toward freedom and inclusive love. The argument boils over and ripples…

La. Baptist Convention exec challenges Ezell pick at NAMB

ALEXANDRIA, La. (ABP) — In an unprecedented open letter to trustees of the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board, the head of an SBC-affiliated state convention called Sept. 9 for NAMB trustees not to endorse a search committee’s recommendation…

A chance encounter, a life transformed

Report documents Trump admin’s neglect of children in detention

Nonprofits aiding immigrant kids say Trump admin intimidating them

The stories we tell define us

Faith, fear clash in middle Tennessee over proposed mosque

Living in the midst of fear challenging but possible, church leaders insist

An inevitable test of Christian faith

Loving Muslims

Fear not, Jesus said — but some Christians still do

Faith, fear clash in middle Tennessee over proposed mosque

Living in the midst of fear is challenging but possible, church leaders insist

FAITH DIGEST

Christian counselors say they encounter discrimination over views on homosexuality

RIGHT or WRONG? Oil-spill outrage

ANALYSIS: Does gay debate mirror church dispute on slavery?

La. Baptist Convention exec challenges Ezell pick at NAMB

Christians Debate Drugs vs. Discipline in the Age of Ozempic

MLB warns players about altering uniforms after Giants pitchers add Bible verses on Pride Night

Jon Ossoff called his newly minted GOP opponent an antisemite. Why?

‘They have already suffered enough’: Central African clergy respond to US deportation

Featured

A chance encounter, a life transformed

Report documents Trump admin’s neglect of children in detention

Nonprofits aiding immigrant kids say Trump admin intimidating them

The stories we tell define us