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Two other venues also have declined to host Promise Keepers events

Belmont University is not alone in declining to host fall events planned by Promise Keepers. The Nashville university with Baptist roots made headlines in June when it withdrew an invitation for the evangelical men’s ministry to stage an event on…

McRaney to file appeal and keep his case against NAMB alive

Will McRaney will file an appeal asking for a federal court’s review of a single judge’s dismissal of his defamation case against the Southern Baptist Convention North American Mission Board. He and his wife, Sandy, announced the decision via a…

Rethinking Rufus

Four and a half years of living in Fort Worth was long enough for me to gain a greater appreciation of how much the Burleson family name is revered in Texas. I already knew this to be true in North…

Retired pastor’s book finds Methodist history ‘strangely lukewarm’ on confronting racism

If United Methodists are to fulfill the church’s current mission to dismantle racism, then its white members must come to terms with the denomination’s racist history, contends author John Elford. Elford’s conviction spurred him to write Our Hearts Were Strangely…

Women crying out in the wilderness in Tennessee

Runners gathered Sept. 1 to participate in “Let’s Finish Liza’s Run” in Memphis to honor the life and remember the death of Eliza Fletcher. She was killed one year ago, allegedly by Cleotha Abston Henderson, who will stand trial. When…

What you haven’t been taught about Martin Luther King

Dedicating highways, schools, monuments and a national holiday to Martin Luther King Jr. often obscures his status as a radical bent on revolutionizing American race relations and faith, according to author and King scholar Lewis Brogdon. “Those are great things,…

The night I stopped believing in substitutionary blood atonement

Almost two decades ago, during a combined Holy Thursday/Good Friday worship service, I told a true story from the Holocaust. The story involved a Polish army sergeant named Franciszek Gajowniczek and a Franciscan priest named Maximilian Kolbe. The Saint of…

Who exactly is the pastor?

There has been significant response to Alexander Lang’s post, “Departure: Why I Left the Church.” I know of two pieces published in Baptist News Global – Cody Sanders’ “I Left the Pastorate While Still Loving It” and Tyler Tankersley’s “Why…

Together for Hope adds Delta region vice president

Charlton Johnson has been named a vice president of Together for Hope, leading the Delta Region of the nonprofit empowerment ministry. Johnson came to Together for Hope from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he was serving as a…

Christian groups applaud Tommy Tuberville’s blockade of military promotions

The secretaries of the Navy, Air Force and Army claim U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s halting of military promotions “is putting our national security at risk,” but the Alabama Republican told CNN he’s “not budging.” For six months, Tuberville has placed…

What we should learn from Deion Sanders and Nebraska women’s volleyball

With week one of the college football season kicking off last weekend, fans across the country began dreaming once again about the gridiron glories of violence and victory. And for the parts of American culture shaped by white evangelicals, these…

Oklahoma joins Florida in allowing PragerU content in public schools

Oklahoma’s controversial new state superintendent of public education has launched a statewide partnership with a private faith-based video-education firm criticized for dealing loosely with history while advancing conservative talking points. “I am thrilled to announce this partnership with PragerU,” said…

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