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SBC abuse survivor advocate says controversial legal brief originated with Lifeway

A prominent sexual abuse survivor and advocate has charged the controversial amicus brief filed by four Southern Baptist Convention entities against a sexual abuse survivor in Kentucky originated with Lifeway Christian Resources. Lifeway, the denomination’s publishing house based in Nashville,…

Are we all guilty of mass shootings?

Here we are again. Another mass shooting. Another set of grieving families and friends. More calls for sensible gun control. More fist-shaking about Second Amendment rights. More inaction. In the 2016 movie The Limehouse Golem, the catchphrase of entertainer Dan Leno…

BJC leader warns — again — of Christian nationalism in Congressional testimony

Amanda Tyler, executive director of Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty, warned members of Congress that attacks against faith freedom at home and abroad present a threat to national security and to American democracy. “Religious freedom is at a crossroads…

The youngest victims of war

The news stories of what has been happening in Israel and Gaza since Oct. 7 have been difficult to absorb. The horrific loss of life, utter destruction of neighborhoods and the terrifying abduction of civilians of all ages have seemed…

Immigrant families separated at border to get legal reprieve and help

Thousands of families that were broken up at the U.S-Mexico border as part of President Donald Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy found some relief with a legal settlement that grants them pathways to seek asylum and provides benefits to offset the…

The duplicity of an SBC amicus brief

In keeping with nationwide trends, the Kentucky legislature extended the time period in which child sex abuse survivors can bring civil lawsuits and allowed that their lawsuits can be asserted not only against perpetrators, but also against institutions that fail to…

WWJP? A checklist for testing the Christlikeness of your pastor’s ‘sermon’ about Israel

It’s been said many Christians have two things for Sunday lunch: fried chicken and fried pastor. I once got a Sunday afternoon phone call lambasting me for a Memorial Day homily during which veterans lit a candle not only for…

Pastor and peacemaker Bob Roberts has traveled the world, and he has some thoughts on Israel and Palestine

Growing up a Baptist pastor’s kid in East Texas, Bob Roberts found himself in church a lot. That time allowed him to develop a love for the church, eventually landing him at Baylor University and then Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary,…

Sometimes reforming: Martin Luther, the church and the rest of us

In short, I will preach it, teach it, write it, but I will constrain no one by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences … but never with force. I simply…

Retributive theology opened the door to growth of the prosperity gospel today

Is it any wonder that the two most influential definitions of the “good news” in a Western society built on capitalism and retribution would be about people getting paid or being punished? In conservative evangelicalism, we see a heavy emphasis…

BNG webinar will feature Greg Garrett and Anthony Reddie in dialogue about James Cone and James Baldwin

BNG’s next “Change-making Conversations” webinar will feature a dialogue with two leading scholars on the theological influences of James Cone and James Baldwin. Baylor University professor Greg Garrett, author of the new book The Gospel According to James Baldwin, will…

Should Southwest Airlines attorneys be required to attend ‘religious liberty training’ by Alliance Defending Freedom?

Everyone agrees that Charlene Carter was a flight attendant for Southwest Airlines for 20 years until she was fired in 2017 following a two-year string of harassing and bullying emails she sent to fellow workers and union leaders. Everyone disagrees…

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