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New BNG podcast puts Wingfield and Cole in conversation about the SBC

Baptist News Global Executive Director Mark Wingfield and blogger Benjamin Cole don’t see eye-to-eye on everything in Baptist life, but they do agree their respective denominations have drifted further apart than ever before. In the inaugural episode of the “Stuck…

Politics, faith and mission: A conversation with Colin Allred

Congressman Colin Allred is, as he notes in our interview, a fourth-generation Texan who played football at Baylor University and then in the NFL for five years before an injury ended his professional career and sent him in the direction…

Will Rwanda keep the money as UK immigrant shipping deal falls apart?

Immigration policy is one of the major fallouts of the UK general elections held July 4, with the new British prime minister declaring a plan to ship migrants to Rwanda “dead and buried.” The previous prime minister, Rishi Sunak, had…

The ministry of buttons

As a part of my church ministry, I often have opportunity to visit our church members in the hospital, in rehab or in their homes. Most visits are similar: “How have you been feeling?” “What are your next steps?” “Let’s…

Call her by her name

Rep. Nancy Mace, after repeatedly mispronouncing the name of Kamala Harris on a CNN panel Aug. 15, was called out for her disrespect by fellow panelist Michael Eric Dyson, a professor at Vanderbilt University. Dyson said: “This congresswoman is a…

Ministry jobs and more

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…

Dispatches from a Black trauma surgeon

Within these four walls I have wrecked the lives of far too many Black mothers. The family room is a windowless, white-walled cell in the hospital, with hazy fluorescent lighting, hard-bottomed plastic chairs, and a worn end table with a…

Baptist Press compares GOP and Democratic platforms to SBC resolutions, and there are some surprises

It should come as a surprise to exactly no one that the platform of the Republican Party aligns more closely with resolutions passed by the Southern Baptist Convention than does the platform of the Democratic Party. What might be surprising,…

Kentucky panelists discuss the threat of Christian nationalism

As a political ideology, Christian nationalism is not the traditionally conservative movement its adherents claim it to be, U.S. Rep. Morgan McGarvey said during a panel discussion on saving democracy hosted by Crescent Hill Baptist Church in Louisville last Saturday….

Dispirited Christians must prepare to stand in the gap, historians urge

The country I know

New book brings Baptist heroes to life for children and youth

The bathroom battles come to the U.S. Capitol