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Culture of Debt: Churches can help poor avoid predatory-lending trap

(ABP) — Payday-loan vendors have grown like kudzu in recent years. Texas has more payday-lending outlets — about 3,000 — than it has McDonald’s and Whataburger restaurants combined. And some churches and pastors are asking how they can equip people…

Nearly 500 accept Christ during Easter celebration at Highlands Fellowship

BRISTOL, Va. — I confess that when I first heard that Highlands Fellowship, a Virginia Baptist multi-site congregation based in Abingdon, Va., was planning to drop Easter eggs from a helicopter in nearby Bristol and then to fill the city’s…

Church-state advocates urge strong successor for Stevens

John Paul Stevens (SCOTUS photo) WASHINGTON (ABP) — With the Supreme Court’s oldest and longest-serving member announcing April 9 his retirement, advocates for strong church-state separation urged that Justice John Paul Stevens’ replacement be as devoted to preventing government establishment…

Top reasons to put a Baptist on the Supreme Court

By Michael Ruffin I confess that until I read this article I had no idea what the religious makeup of the Supreme Court of the United States was. But now I find that we are faced, given the retirement of…

VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Misinformation gave false view

I agree with Jim Denton’s reply [Herald, April 1] to the article, “Airlee Court votes to stay the course.” The article was not accurate in the facts of Journey Church’s part in this situation. This misinformation gave an unwarranted negative…

A culture of debt, a culture of thrift: Some Americans alter money attitudes

A growing number of American Christians — and even some secular groups — are beginning to believe John Wesley had the right idea: “Make all you can; save all you can; give all you can.” Hard work, thrift and philanthropy…

Reading the Bible through the lens of poverty affects interpretation

(ABP) — One's socioeconomic status can influence how people read and interpret the Bible — and often how they will act on it, according to some Christian leaders. {youtube}451MJGDsxUE{/youtube} Miguel De La Torre, associate professor of social ethics at the…

Missiologist: Christians in developing world interpret Bible differently

RICHMOND, Va. (ABP) — Christians in the developing nations read Scripture differently than their brothers and sister in the affluent West, according to missiologist Caleb Oladipo. Caleb Oladipo “The way we read the Scriptures in the Western world particularly is…

Black Baptist pastor asks SBC to repent of racism

ARLINGTON, Texas (ABP) — A prominent African-American Baptist pastor says the Southern Baptist Convention has not kept a promise made in 1995 to "eradicate racism in all its forms from Southern Baptist life and ministry." Dwight McKissic, pastor of Cornerstone…

Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

Restored Voices Collective gets GRACE report on former board member

‘CatsOnACouch’ influencer sues over First Amendment rights

Court finds Trump and Blanche conspired to create sham IRS lawsuit

Culture of Debt: Churches can help poor avoid predatory-lending trap

Nearly 500 accept Christ during Easter celebration at Highlands Fellowship

Church-state advocates urge strong successor for Stevens

Top reasons to put a Baptist on the Supreme Court

VIRGINIA BAPTIST FORUM: Misinformation gave false view

A culture of debt, a culture of thrift: Some Americans alter money attitudes

Reading the Bible through the lens of poverty affects interpretation

Missiologist: Christians in developing world interpret Bible differently

Black Baptist pastor asks SBC to repent of racism

Black Baptist pastor asks SBC to repent of racism

Former Baptist pastor gets 10 years for molestation

Post-Easter, post-bunny reflections

Israel is building a miles-long earthen barrier inside Gaza, entrenching its division

Hegseth’s Testosterone Announcement Isn’t Just a Sign of the Right’s Fragile Masculinity — It’s Also Wrong

Embryo Personhood Moving Closer To The Political Center

As bishop in Peru, future Pope Leo showed himself ahead of the curve on synodality

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Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

Restored Voices Collective gets GRACE report on former board member

‘CatsOnACouch’ influencer sues over First Amendment rights

Court finds Trump and Blanche conspired to create sham IRS lawsuit