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Your new favorite Christmas song: How to Make Gravy

The sad songs that are popular at Christmas are not sad enough. Sinatra’s Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas pretends to be sad, but Frank promises that “next year all our troubles will be miles away,” and Frank usually got what…

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…

Your words are not enough, Beth Allison Barr tells male SBC pastors on sexual abuse after Johnny Hunt’s ‘restoration’

Pastors guilty of sexual abuse never should be restored to ministry, Baylor University professor and author Beth Allison Barr wrote for a news service in the United Kingdom Dec. 9. The opinion piece published by Premier Christianity addresses the case…

Of drag shows and the scandal of Christmas

I enjoy drag shows, and I love drag queens, because they are all oh so much fun. Oh, and also, because of Jesus. If Christmas means anything, it means God so loves the queer community that Jesus is born unto…

Baylor study finds — surprisingly — that student athletes express higher levels of religious belief

Student athletes at Baylor University demonstrate higher levels of religious belief, participation and identity than their non-athlete counterparts at least in part because the Baptist school is successfully balancing faith and athletics, according to a study published last month in…

How to use ‘O Come, O Come, Emmanuel’ for daily reflection beginning Dec. 17

The season of Advent may present a challenge for worship planners whose congregations clamor to sing Christmas carols rather than Advent hymns. After all, our ears have been beset with Christmas music since October in retail stores, restaurants and on…

With gratitude for the Respect for Marriage Act, we’ve still got Advent work to do

Last Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act, providing federal protection for same-sex and interracial marriages. Outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi beamed on the House floor as she emphasized the importance of this legislation, the culmination…

Mary, Our Mother (for Baptists): I don’t think that word means what you think it means

This is the third in a four-part series BNG will publish every Monday during Advent. I, like many of you, was in at least one Christmas pageant as a child growing up in the Baptist church. Sadly, I can distinctly…

Ten years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Americans remain worried yet divided on the issue of gun violence

It’s been 10 years since 20 first graders and six adults were killed during a tragic attack by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School. News of the shooting shocked the nation. The event was one of the deadliest school…

An American experiment: 250 years of trying

10 reasons America is not a ‘Christian nation’

American Dominion traces deep roots of Seven Mountain Mandate

Lindsey Graham and the history of ‘widow’s succession’

Your new favorite Christmas song: How to Make Gravy

Ministry jobs and more

Your words are not enough, Beth Allison Barr tells male SBC pastors on sexual abuse after Johnny Hunt’s ‘restoration’

Of drag shows and the scandal of Christmas

Baylor study finds — surprisingly — that student athletes express higher levels of religious belief

How to use ‘O Come, O Come, Emmanuel’ for daily reflection beginning Dec. 17

With gratitude for the Respect for Marriage Act, we’ve still got Advent work to do

Mary, Our Mother (for Baptists): I don’t think that word means what you think it means

Ten years after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Americans remain worried yet divided on the issue of gun violence

White House approves 18-month extension of TPS for Haitian refugees as conditions worsen

Houston pastor has a word of witness about the Bushes

McRaney trial finally gets a date, and NAMB is compelled to expand the scope of its documentation

European Evangelicals Draw A Clear Distinction From Their American Counterparts

Clergy serving among the ruins of Venezuela

The Deep Spiritual History of AI

Israel’s parliament approves laws to enshrine exemption of ultra-Orthodox men from military service

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An American experiment: 250 years of trying

10 reasons America is not a ‘Christian nation’

American Dominion traces deep roots of Seven Mountain Mandate

Lindsey Graham and the history of ‘widow’s succession’