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The war on abortion is now a war on birth control

Inspired by influencers on TikTok, young women are abandoning hormonal birth control and seeking alternative methods of contraception. But not everyone behind the push to “natural” family planning has their best interests at heart. Conservative religious groups and rightwing political…

Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Randolph Hollerith

Randolph “Randy” Marshall Hollerith was named the 11th dean of Washington National Cathedral in 2016. Under Dean Hollerith, the “nation’s church” has shed a decades-long reputation as an unfriendly place for people of color and has leaned into its call…

Rwanda: 30 years after the genocide

Thirty years ago this month, hell’s gate flung open in the land of a thousand hills, leading to the loss of 1 million lives in Rwanda. That poetic language by one analyst describes the most barbaric genocide the world has…

The Sunday I was transfigured

Every pastor has certain Sundays they like more than others. Christ the King Sunday is my least favorite Sunday. But I love Transfiguration Sunday. That’s the Sunday that falls right before the season of Lent. It’s the Sunday that concludes…

What happened when Mark Driscoll and Josh Howerton showed up at the Stronger Men’s Conference this weekend

Megachurch pastor Mark Driscoll seethed as Alex Magala, described by two fawning onlookers as “the finest swordsman in all the world,” slowly circled a pole on stage, peeled off his red leather top, slid his tongue up to the tip of…

McCammon and Emerson headline Friends of BNG dinner

Sarah McCammon and Michael Emerson will headline this year’s Friends of Baptist News Global dinner during the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly in Greensboro, N.C., June 20. McCammon, author of The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church, is…

‘You forgive us, we’ll forgive you,’ the theology of John Prine

April 7 marked the four-year anniversary of the death of John Prine. A beloved American singer-songwriter, Prine was one of the first victims of COVID-19 when the disease took his last breath in the spring of 2020. The multi-Grammy-winning storyteller…

The antidote to mean Christianity

A Doubter’s Parish reader recently wrote, “How did Christianity become so mean? How did we get from Jesus’ message of love to relentless condemnations against gays, transgender persons, women preachers, immigrants, scientists, educators, journalists and public-school librarians?” She said, “When…

Matthew Vines sets off a debate over what it means to be ‘queer’

Dear Mike Johnson, be careful what you ask for

What, to the white Christian, is America 250?

Four years later, anti-abortionists battle on other fronts

The war on abortion is now a war on birth control

Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Randolph Hollerith

Rwanda: 30 years after the genocide

The Sunday I was transfigured

What happened when Mark Driscoll and Josh Howerton showed up at the Stronger Men’s Conference this weekend

McCammon and Emerson headline Friends of BNG dinner

‘You forgive us, we’ll forgive you,’ the theology of John Prine

The antidote to mean Christianity

Nancy French seeks atonement for past culture warring in Ghosted

What can we learn from the Asbury Revival a year later?

A musical playlist for commemorating Martin Luther King

Register for Sunday’s webinar with Robert P. Jones with Greg Garrett, Timothy Peoples and Mark Wingfield

Pope promotes Italian nun to top migrant role in his first major appointment of a woman to Holy See

A Pastoral Response from BWA and UBLA

Amazon’s Second Season Of ‘Hazbin Hotel’ Reinvents Christian Redemption

Muslims were part of America’s story long before the republic began

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Matthew Vines sets off a debate over what it means to be ‘queer’

Dear Mike Johnson, be careful what you ask for

What, to the white Christian, is America 250?

Four years later, anti-abortionists battle on other fronts