Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says James Talarico will “go to hell” for his beliefs about the Bible. Talarico is an ordained Presbyterian minister and seminarian who is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas. He will face erstwhile...
Whenever I’m asked what contemporary writers people should be reading on race and culture, the first name I always produce is Vann Newkirk II. Vann is senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly, where he has written essential stories on race,…
Saving American Christianity from the idolatry of religious nationalism requires the creation of a church untainted by MAGA conservatism and its lust for racial and political dominance, according to Sojourners founder Jim Wallis. The new creation would be comprised mostly…
This is the fourth of a five-part fictional story set in the early 1990s about Rev. Paul Graham and his congregation, Grace United Church of Christ. In the previous episode, a lifelong member of Paul’s congregation contracted HIV/AIDS. In spite…
I once heard a pastor say, as he was getting into the sermon, “Now, hang with me, I’m working it out.” And, sure enough, there’s many a biblical text over which we have to labor and work out our understandings…
This coming Holy Week, Christians remember Jesus’ “cleansing of the temple” in Jerusalem. He was setting his opposition to the temple priesthood and their collusion with Rome to sustain an unjust social order that oppressed the weak and poor. As…
By a unanimous vote of the 60 trustees attending today’s called meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee, longtime Gateway Seminary president and one-time Home Mission Board-appointed church planter Jeff Preston Iorg was elected chief executive officer of the Nashville-based administrative arm of the SBC. Today’s meeting marked…
For the first time in two and a half years, the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has a permanent staff leader. Jeff Iorg, president of Gateway Seminary in California, was unanimously elected president of the Executive Committee March 21 in…
Paige and Dorothy Patterson stripped the president’s home at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary upon their departure and left the 10,000-square-foot home in a state of disrepair, according to a new lawsuit filed against the seminary by former President Adam Greenway….
“At this moment in American religious and political life, what question should we let disturb us and keep us up all night?” That’s the query Tripp Fuller put to Corey Walker and me at the end of a two-hour Homebrewed…
Our words don’t matter anymore. There once was a time when they did. Media reach was limited by its medium, be that print or electronic, but with the advent of social media and the omnipresent internet, something changed. Anybody’s thoughts…
Mainline Christians should not let themselves off the hook for enabling the ideology of Christian nationalism that currently threatens American democracy, author and journalist Brian Kaylor says. While white evangelicals get most of the blame, Mainline and other non-evangelical Christians…
When the Southern Baptist Convention meets in annual session in Indianapolis in June, one vote may be the most consequential in determining the future of the nation’s largest Protestant denomination. And it will not be the vote to elect an…
