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It wasn’t your imagination: New study proves divisions created in churches by COVID

A new study exposes the stress and pain clergy endured during the COVID-19 pandemic as divisions over public health restrictions transformed many churches into culture-war battlefields. “Polarization decreased the middle ground, diminished trust in pastoral decision-making and created a general…

Benny Hinn goes to Africa, but can faith healing build roads and restore a broken economy?

Over the past two months, the Israeli American preacher Benny Hinn visited and preached in two African countries — Ghana in January and Kenya in February. His health and wealth gospel was well received in the African countries. In Nairobi,…

Yet another group forms to turn the SBC in a more conservative direction

Another new group has emerged in the struggle for control of the Southern Baptist Convention — a tug-of-war between traditionalist conservatives and ultra-conservatives. The Center for Baptist Leadership was introduced on social media March 8 by William Wolfe, a conservative…

Settlement means you can ‘say gay’ in Florida schools after all

It turns out you can “say gay” in Florida’s public schools — just so long as you’re not the teacher presenting classroom content. On Monday, March 12, a settlement was announced between the state of Florida and an LGBTQ group…

God, sex, gender and politics

A redlight recently stopped my progress through snow falling heavily on the smalltown equivalent of Times Square. Gold letters across the courthouse façade proclaimed, “IN GOD WE TRUST.” Trusting both God and my all-wheel-drive Subaru, I felt awe and excitement…

There’s a new religious advocacy group with ties to Patterson and Conservative Baptist Network

The latest conservative, pro-family, anti-diversity advocacy group affirmed by the James Dobson Family Institute has distinctive Southern Baptist ties and takes its name from a historic Baptist legacy traditionalists might be surprised to see on such an enterprise. In an…

Ministry jobs and more

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…

10 practices to help us cultivate a Jesus worldview

Irish singer and songwriter Bono of the band U2 confesses, “I believe Jesus is the Son of God; if we could be more like him, the world would be transformed.” It’s one thing to confess, “I believe in Jesus.” It’s…

Why can’t we just ‘BE KIND NOW!!’?

Thanks to a kindness art campaign going on at our local elementary school this month, I have received multiple notes from my youngest child with a rainbow drawing and one simple command: “BE KIND NOW!!” These BE KIND notes came…

State judge blocks Paxton’s quest to ‘run roughshod’ over El Paso migrant ministry

A state district judge has blocked Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s attempt to obtain records from a faith-based migrant services shelter in El Paso. Paxton filed suit against Annunciation House, a historic Catholic nonprofit, when the shelter failed to provide…

A word in praise of Baptist Press

File this under “Things I Never Thought I’d See.” Last Friday, the official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention published a 2,300-word news story about the tarnished legacy of Paul Pressler. For the first time, the BP story acknowledges…

White evangelicals stand out again in survey of immigration attitudes but other surveys show more openness to a solution

White evangelicals outpace other Christian groups in assuming the worst about immigrants and immigration, Pew Research Center found in a new study. The March 4 report also found Christians overall have more negative attitudes about immigration than those who claim…

Theologizing with Larkin Poe, 10 years after Reskinned

Ministry leader with tall tales wins GOP bid for Colorado governor

What Willy Rice once knew

What I learned July 5 at church