This is the ninth in a BNG series of articles on Christianity and democracy that will lead toward the July 4 celebration of America’s 250th birthday. The series has been curated by Carol McEntyre, senior minister at First Baptist Church of...
When one of his parishioners ran for U.S. president, Otis Moss III and his church received threats of violence. Those threats of “We’re going to kill you” still haunted him years later when he heard a noise in his home…
There’s nothing new about a pastor resigning due to controversy over sex, but now a pastor has resigned because he wrote a controversial book about sex. Josh Butler, co-lead pastor at Redemption Church in Tempe, Ariz., is author of the…
Fellowship Southwest has issued an urgent and immediate call for volunteers to serve migrants at an immigrant respite center and welcome center in Brownsville, Texas, deep in the Rio Grande Valley across the border from Matamoros, Mexico. That Fellowship Southwest-supported…
The Biden administration has begun preparing to end Title 42, the COVID-19 order that authorizes the rapid expulsion of migrants, primarily to Mexico, on May 11. The administration will impose penalties for those who enter the U.S. without inspection while…
By some accounts it was an orderly and kind meeting, while by other accounts it was a meeting driven by inappropriate Christian conduct. And in the aftermath of one of the most unusual events in Southern Baptist Convention history, a…
The more restricted abortion access becomes, the more likely Americans are to believe in the legal accessibility to the procedure, according to a new study by Pew Research Center. The poll conducted in late March and early April compared attitudes…
Vann Newkirk II is senior editor of The Atlantic and one of our most thoughtful and talented writers on race, politics and culture. I first met him years ago when Baylor University sponsored an annual film program on race and…
Last week, a video went viral of popular conservative commentator Steven Crowder, a professing Christian, verbally abusing his ex-wife, Hilary Crowder. Hilary’s family released the three-minute clip to clarify Steven Crowder’s claims that Hilary divorced him for no reason. In…
We are living in a time of panic in America. How best can we respond to it as Christians? There is a racial panic, a church panic and a moral panic. These forms of panic are causing our nation to…
“People have managed to turn the page and move forward from grieving, from crying, and people have decided to live on, and people have been ready, have been willing to do the most difficult thing: to forgive. Well, but we…
The oppression of Ukrainian religious communities should be added to the war crimes charges already filed against Russian leaders by judges in the Hague, an official with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom said May 1. Brutal and ongoing…
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