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Anti-Trump Republicans target evangelicals in ad blasting the ‘MAGA Church’

A group of “never-Trump” Republicans targets Christian voters in its first political ad warning that “evangelical leaders who lay their loyalty and faith on the altar of Donald Trump are betraying their congregants and their country.”

Small, one-pastor church lives into big vision with Koinonia Farm, Jimmy Carter and wider progressive movement

“There is a rich legacy of progressive Baptists doing things in here in Sumter County.”

God help us: holding fiercely to hope amid all the warmongering

It’s astonishing to consider that only a few weeks ago we celebrated the birth of the Prince of Peace. There are absolutely no words to express the contradiction between the meaning of Christmas and the practice of warmongering.

50 years later, I still grieve my brother’s death: Looking back in order to look forward

In looking back on irretrievable loss, perhaps we can do a better job of capturing the here and now.

Brave peacemaking, not bullying, must be our goal

As observances of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and MLK Day approach, King’s prophetic warnings about war ring relevant and true to our current political environment.

3 keys to surviving your wilderness experience

God is still present and still at work even in our darkest nights in the wilderness.

Transitions for the week of 1-10-20

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated weekly. STAFF CHANGES Emily Holladay, to Village Baptist Church, Bowie, Md., as pastor. Barry Howard, to Wieuca Road Baptist Church,…

Another church shooting: Have we become ‘morally anesthetized’ to the horrors of gun violence?

Sadly, West Freeway Church of Christ will not be the last American faith community to endure violent trauma. Yes, religious communities must develop security strategies for protecting vulnerable worshippers, but people of faith must reject any idea that such horror is normative.

Why neither seminary nor pastoral experience prepares ministers for (their own) grief

“I was equipped to function in the midst of crisis and to be a non-anxious presence, but nothing prepares you or equips you for the grief over someone who is dear to you.”

We need to talk about oppression, not just privilege

Former Christian Post editor says Trump posing as ‘pastor in chief’

Moving from ‘knowing’ to ‘unknowing’: leadership during a liminal time for the church

Kenneth Starr is doing it again