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Southeastern Seminary names an alumnus as president

Correction: An earlier version of this article wrongly stated that Scott Pace was the first Southeastern Seminary alumnus to be named president there. Randall Lolley also was an alumnus when he became president. Trustees of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary…

‘Crimes against humanity’ and the fight for reparative justice

I recently traveled to Geneva to attend the fifth session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, an advisory body to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations. As executive director of JustFaith Ministries, I joined representatives…

Why the faculty’s stand at Southeastern Seminary matters now

In 1987, the faculty of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C., faced what many faculty members at colleges and universities across the country are confronting today: The takeover of their institution by outside forces determined to impose ideological…

Baptist journalist broke the story of Hegseth’s Pulp Fiction prayer

A Baptist journalist is responsible for identifying Pete Hegseth’s prayer as cribbed from Pulp Fiction, and his attention to detail has gone around the world. It was Brian Kaylor, editor of Word&Way, who broke the news of last Wednesday’s Pentagon worship…

She’s not a Muslim, but she’s working to defend them in Oklahoma

Going to work for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Oklahoma was a natural fit for civil rights attorney Veronica Laizure, despite the fact she isn’t Muslim. “I consider it sort of an adoptive community to myself as a nonreligious…

Post-evangelical churches are succeeding

There is much handwringing about the “state of the church” these days. I want to suggest that handwringing is a bit exaggerated. I know the statistics. There are certainly many U.S. churches that are struggling and some that are closing….

Most Americans see Trump as ‘not religious’

President Donald Trump is either “not too religious” or “not religious at all,” according to 70% of U.S. adults polled this month by Pew Research Center. “At the same time, many Republicans and white evangelical Protestants say Trump stands up…

Inquiry asked into feds cancelling $11 million grant to Catholic Charities

Democracy Forward wants to know if the Trump administration’s cancellation of an $11 million grant to a Catholic organization resulted from the president’s spat with Pope Leo XIV over the Iran war. Critics of the president believe the award was…

Church gives away $1 million to stop evictions

Not every headline out of Washington, D.C., or Northern Virginia is about division, Donald Trump or American dysfunction. Every now and then, the light breaks through the legislation and press conferences. Just miles from the corridors of power, in Alexandria,…

The Bible is not just a white man’s book

You’ve been told the Bible was a white man’s book. You’ve seen the images — pale-skinned angels, a European Jesus, blonde-haired apostles. Church walls lined with Renaissance art have shaped a quiet but powerful assumption over time, that holiness somehow…

Confessions of a cancer caregiver

After a lifetime of trying to follow Jesus, the enormity of his teachings becomes tangibly real when cancer comes into your life. It’s one o’clock in the afternoon, and my husband, John, is asleep. He’s no slacker; he’s recovering from…

When baptism becomes a carnival

In some evangelical circles, baptism is a spectator sport. It’s always about which pastor or church can baptize the most people or put on the most extravagant baptismal super event. Thus, when Mark Francey, pastor and co-founder of Oceans Church…

Nobody dislikes Southern Baptists more than Al Mohler

Trump EEOC claims more religious discrimination on vaccine mandates

What I wish Christians knew about Sharia Law

On telling a brother he is going to hell