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Resurrection’s joy ascends, but so, too, its detractors

For many years the joy of Easter Sunday’s resurrection observance has been contested by the continuing powers of death. Easter’s portable feast (due to its lunar calculation) means it typically falls in the vicinity of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s execution by the…

Letter to the Editor: I was there

Dear Editor: I was there on the night of Sept. 20, 1990, when Herb Reynolds met with a small group of trustees to present a plan to transform Baylor’s governing board into a self-perpetuating body, independent of Baptist General Convention…

Ministry jobs

Baptist News Global provides a free listing of ministry-related jobs for Baptist churches, theological institutions and organizations across the United States. Each free posting is for 30 days and is limited to 150 words. Postings may be extended another 30…

Backfilling history

Look around. What do you see? Often, it’s what you expect to see, not what’s really there. All of us share this tendency. Language, too, affects what I see. If I don’t have a word for it, I probably won’t…

It’s time to try a new approach on racial healing

In order for any old ways and systems to change, there must be people with the capacity for vision who can imagine that change. Bridging the Rivers of Difference, A Proclamation of Unity In Resistance is my new book that…

FEMA official spread election lies before claiming he was teleported

Unfortunately, Gregg Phillips’ claims that he was twice teleported from one place to another aren’t the biggest problems for this top government official with a long history of shady deals, charity scams and false claims of voter fraud. In December,…

The blame for Trump’s messiah complex lies with Franklin Graham

Last week, Donald Trump began to openly challenge and mock the pope and then posted an image of himself as Jesus Christ. Many conservative Catholics and even evangelicals who have wholeheartedly defended and supported Trump were taken aback, but not…

Alliance urged to touch the wounds and reclaim freedom

Because “covered wounds don’t heal,” American Christians must continue to expose the truth of their harmful past, Michael Woolf told the Alliance of Baptists annual gathering. That message was echoed in a second address by Kelly Brown Douglas, visiting professor…

As Alliance gathers, questions and hope abound

On the brink of its 40th anniversary, the Alliance of Baptists met near Chicago April 17-19 facing unexpected turmoil about its future. This year’s annual gathering already was planned when the board of directors announced the sudden departures of Co-Directors…

‘America Reads the Bible’ kicks off, and Trump to read Tuesday

“America Reads the Bible” kicked off in Washington, D.C., Sunday morning, April 19, with actress Patricia Heaton — of Everybody Loves Raymond — reading aloud Genesis chapters one and two. The public read-a-thon is scheduled to conclude Saturday, April 25,…

In conversation with my grandmother

This wasn’t the In Conversation I thought I would sit down and write this week. I did not plan to interview my grandmother from a hospital chair. The room was quiet in the way hospital rooms often are — machines…

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