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Morris Chapman joins 60 signers of court brief arguing against Kevin Ezell and NAMB

A former president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee has joined 60 other Baptist leaders in publicly opposing the SBC North American Mission Board’s legal argument against Will McRaney. Morris Chapman, a former SBC president and president of the…

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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…

Gina Jacobs-Strain named general secretary of ABCUSA

Gina Jacobs-Strain has been named general secretary of the American Baptist Churches USA for a three-year term beginning Feb. 1, 2024. She will follow C. Jeff Woods, who has been serving as intentional interim general secretary since 2019. The general…

Association of Certified Biblical Counselors needs to look deeper than Bill Shannon to understand what ails them

The Association of Certified Biblical Counselors has removed Bill Shannon, women’s pastor and counseling pastor at John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church, from their approved counselors list due to credible allegations of protecting abusers and harming women. The accusations were cosigned in…

If you’re uncertain how to approach Israel and Gaza, start with grief

I’ve known churches that have been on the frontlines of every concern of justice, congregations in which you could well assume nearly everyone is voting for the same candidate at the top of the ticket, churches in which no controversial…

The Canceling of the American Mind: Both right and left embrace cancel culture in battle for power

If you believe conservative Christian groups like Focus on the Family and Summit Ministries, canceling others is something people on the political left do to people on the right. The authors of a recent book perform a valuable social function…

Mercer scholar studies Muslim women who marry non-Muslim men

Muslim women in Western and Islamic societies are increasingly standing up against Quranic interpretations barring them from marrying non-Muslims, religion scholar Shehnaz Haqqani said. “My respondents insist their marriages are Islamically valid and Islamically grounded, and that their marriages are…

Children fleeing alone need our compassion and protection

Violence, conflict and oppression seem to be everywhere these days. The horrors in the Middle East, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, Haiti and many more places are devastating to contemplate. And the dangerous flight for safety they spur: Life-threatening travels on overcrowded…

Interfaith coalition produces ‘Faith in Elections Playbook’ to guide faith leaders

A national interfaith group and a cross-partisan democracy nonprofit have partnered to create a comprehensive online guide to faith-based involvement in the 2024 primaries and general election. The “Faith in Elections Playbook” provides detailed instructions congregations and other religious groups…

Black Gospel Music Preservation Program fine tunes the art of cultural preservation

Note: This is the last in a five-part series on the Black Gospel Music Preservation Program made possible by generous funding from the Prichard Family Foundation. While Baylor University’s Black Gospel Music Preservation Program is all about the music,…

The vice and the cure

Livy, the great poet of Rome, once said: “We have reached the point where we cannot bear either our vices or their cure.” As was true for the Romans, so it is for us. The political and social fabric of…

Humans in the hands of a silent God

Any more, as I hear about the bad and violent actions people take against other people, I shudder. I held onto a naivete about how “good” people — those who believe in God — were somehow better, that their relationship…

Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war