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70 years ago today, ‘under God’ was added to the Pledge of Allegiance

George Docherty was a progressive Presbyterian minister serving in the nation’s capital. In 1965, he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in a civil rights demonstration after Bloody Sunday. Docherty later criticized the Vietnam...

Breaking news: SBC will vote on three explosive motions Wednesday morning

Three new and potentially explosive issues will come up for a vote by messengers to the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting Wednesday, June 12. That will happen before the convention considers another highly controversial matter carried over from last year…

Day before voting on Law Amendment, SBC removes church that is Mike Law’s neighbor

One day before the much-anticipated vote on a constitutional amendment that would clarify the Southern Baptist Convention’s rejection of women in ministry, messengers to the SBC annual meeting overwhelmingly kicked out another church for its “egalitarian” views. First Baptist Church…

SBC engages feisty debate on meaning of religious liberty before adopting resolution

That there are two distinct views on the meaning of religious liberty among Southern Baptists came into stark contrast June 11 during lengthy debate of a resolution “on defending religious liberty.” The convention’s Resolutions Committee put forward the resolution that…

Critics see NAMB race car as symbol of financial excess they still want to curb

The quest to demand great financial accountability from the Southern Baptist Convention’s North American Mission Board accelerated as messengers to the SBC annual meeting in Indianapolis were greeted by an Indy race car wrapped with the NAMB logo. This prominent…

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The Law Amendment would force out this Georgia church, among others

Struggling against the powers that be in the Southern Baptist Convention is nothing new to Dunwoody Baptist Church in North Atlanta. In 1989 and 1990 when he ran as the last “moderate” candidate in the SBC presidential race, Daniel Vestal…

This is what support looks like: The First Baptist Richmond story

On May 19, First Baptist Church of Richmond, Va., made Baptist history by voting to leave the Southern Baptist Convention in support of women in ministry. Their decision wasn’t driven by hatred for the SBC or a desire to move…

Watching SBC men posture for position is exhausting

It’s exhausting to the soul. That’s what I’m feeling as I consider all the possible stories I could write regarding what white conservative men have planned for this year’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting in Indianapolis. Capturing most headlines is…

June Honeycutt dies at age 96

June Williams Honeycutt died Saturday, June 8, in Louisville, Ky. She was the widow of Roy Honeycutt, former president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville. He was the last “moderate” president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s mother seminary before…

Conservative Supreme Court did not give anti-abortion group what they wanted on mifepristone

Your guide to the Supreme Court’s upcoming blockbuster decisions

Book examines one bitter battle in the nation’s war over public education

Bill Walton loved hoops, the Grateful Dead — and people