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National leader of Chi Alpha resigns as sex abuse scandal looms

The national director of a college ministry that has been embroiled in scandal in Texas resigned Nov. 20, according to reporting by The Christian Post, a conservative online publication. Scott Martin had led Chi Alpha, a 300-campus ministry of the…

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…

Alabama Supreme Court declines to stop Samford from taking house of former fraternity

Samford University has won a 12-year battle for control of a million-dollar property once home to a now-banned fraternity on campus. The latest development in the saga of the Lambda Chi Alpha house came almost 12 years to the day…

Devouring beasts: Advent and the 2024 election

In the Christian calendar, the new year begins with the first Sunday of Advent. That is the Sunday just past. Happy Christian New Year, everyone! If one is thinking in terms of the Christian calendar, then, the new year began…

New speaker of the House releases select January 6 footage to allow Christians and conservatives to change the narrative

Days after House speaker Mike Johnson, a conservative Christian who says he is guided by the Bible, started releasing security camera footage from the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, Trump supporters…

If the Sinner’s Prayer is the only way to salvation, why isn’t it in the Bible?

One night recently, I was speaking by phone with the adult son of a man whose funeral I would officiate a few days later. While getting to know the family and the deceased in preparation for these “pick up” funerals…

Journalist’s book explores ‘crack-up of the American evangelical church’

After covering the “crack-up” of the Republican Party in American Carnage, award-winning journalist Tim Alberta explores “the crack-up of the American evangelical church” in The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Four years…

I asked for awe: The gift of awe and the path of radical amazement

The great Rabbi Abraham Heschel, a spiritual genius, suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1972. A friend came to visit him in his New York City apartment. Heschel said, “Sam, when I regained consciousness, my first feelings were not of…

Still a high and holy calling

I want to say a word on behalf of a sometimes overlooked category of ministry. I refer to the Baptist pastor who maintains a sense of God’s calling to ministry and serves God and people faithfully, month by month, year…

In Botswana, a booming economy lures U.S.-educated pastors home

The tiny nation of Botswana — with 2.6 million people — is arguably the U.S.’s most reliable diplomatic and military friend in Africa. Now, a booming economy driven by diamond, copper and rare earth minerals is attracting U.S.-educated Baptist, Pentecostal…

The pain of advent

This is the second of a four-part series in which we seek to see anew the incarnation of Jesus through the eyes and body of a woman, Mary the mother of Jesus. For Jesus to become flesh, word incarnate,…

‘It was futile … nothing will change’

“Apology.” That was the subject heading. It was an email from a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sexual Abuse Task Force, the committee that was created in the summer of 2021 and given a one-year term to oversee a…

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