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Baptist layman Charlie Daniel: six decades of courage, compassion and wit as an editorial cartoonist

Charlie Daniel was called a lot of things during more than six decades as a newspaper cartoonist in Knoxville, Tennessee. Some of the names are unprintable. Others are just amusing. “I got some letters and emails over the years saying,…

Controversy and Coronavirus Keep Church Plants Out of Schools

When Alabama megachurch pastor Chris Hodges liked recent social media posts from conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, he launched a chain of events that led to two of his church’s campuses being expelled from their meeting spaces in Birmingham public schools.

Q&A: Is that grief or depression you’re experiencing due to COVID-19?

People are recoiling from multiple aspects of the reality that’s impacting their lives on social, emotional and financial levels.

What will we see less of and more of in America’s churches in the 2020s?

Even with all the uncertainties around and within us, there appear to be some broad truths and trends emerging that are going to define our work in the Church for the foreseeable future.

Christian nationalism provides cover for white supremacy, BJC leader says

Christian nationalism provides cover for white supremacy, and both must be stopped by Christians concerned about religious freedom, Amanda Tyler said at the National Press Club June 26.

Live boldly, even if the world thinks it’s foolish, Birdwhistell preaches

While planning for tomorrow might appear to be foolish in the face of COVID-19, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship must step forward in bold faithfulness, speakers and preachers said during CBF’s virtual General Assembly June 25-26.

White Christians at ‘a moment of reckoning,’ author says

Jefferson Davis’ statue coming down in Richmond, Va., and Walmart refusing to fly the Mississippi state flag because of its Confederate emblem are powerful signs the movement against white supremacy is taking hold, Robert P. Jones said during an online discussion hosted June 26 by the BJC.

Tell the Jesus story and stop worrying about numerical growth, historian advises

As if churches didn’t have enough challenges in the 21st century, COVID-19 has added insult to injury, Bill Leonard told participants in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship General Assembly June 26.

The ‘heritage, not hate’ argument doesn’t fly, be it monument or flag

Some say it’s “heritage, not hate.” But what is the heritage? Dissenting against the values of the Constitution? Rejecting a vision of breathtaking freedom, “unalienable rights,” “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”? That’s something to celebrate?

Defund the police? How about ‘defunding America’ through radical, thorough-going, far-reaching change?

Hardy Clemons remembered as mentor, encourager, hero

What kind of witness will the white Christian church give?

There’s a double standard on pastors and politics