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Critics of Brittney Griner are bad patriots making bad arguments

The New Testament story of Barabbas is the best metaphor I have found for what is unfolding in America after the release of Brittney Griner from a Russian prison. The conservative branch of our fractured country has erupted like coyotes…

As Americans celebrate release of Brittney Griner, some conservatives openly criticize her freedom

Former Baylor University basketball superstar Brittney Griner has been released from captivity in Russia in a prisoner swap involving a Russian arms dealer, President Joe Biden announced Dec. 8. “She’s safe. She’s on a plane. She’s on her way home…

Study shows meditation can help reduce anxiety, but younger Christians are not doing it

Meditation has been around for thousands of years, used as a religious practice to achieve mindfulness. Today, many Christians report practicing meditation at some level of frequency in their lives, but Christians as a whole disagree on what it means,…

Gifts of the season

Can you imagine this season without light? Light is the essence of Christmas, illuminating the birth of Christ and drawing us into its message of hope, love, peace and joy. It’s no surprise that light is in many holiday traditions:…

For first time, M.A. enrollment equals M.Div. enrollment at U.S. seminaries

After more than a decade of significant instability, enrollment in America’s accredited theological schools has found some stability, although the degree programs being pursued continue to shift and more schools are shrinking than growing. These are the findings of a…

Alliance of Baptists steps into anti-racism work

The coming year will be filled with the challenge of intense anti-slavery work for the Alliance of Baptists if its 2022 fall gathering was any indication. The session was held Nov. 10-12 in Montgomery, Ala., where about 150 participants attended…

While many evangelical leaders are wary of Trump’s 2024 run, this Oklahoma pastor has launched a fan club

While many of Donald Trump’s former evangelical pastor supporters have distanced themselves from his run for the presidency in 2024, one failed candidate for the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma has launched a new Trump fan club. Jackson Lahmeyer, pastor of…

Nondenominationalizing American Christianity II: The responses

You could have fooled me! When BNG published my essay, “The Non-denominationalizing of American Christianity,” Nov. 29, I posted it on my Facebook page, never imagining it would elicit much response. Was I ever surprised! Comments abounded, some with considerable…

An important conversation about ordaining and unordaining

Our motto here at BNG is to inspire you, dear readers, with change-making conversations. We’ve hit a nerve with one of those conversations this week, which tells me it is extremely important that we talk about this. The “this” is…

Anthony Everett will coordinate Baptist Seminary of Kentucky’s Siloam Project

Anthony Everett, a human rights advocate, public theologian and congregational coach/consultant, has been appointed to the Baptist Seminary of Kentucky staff as coordinator of the school’s Siloam Project, effective Dec. 15. Everett comes to his new role from service as…

Iranian officials reportedly suspend morality police after three months of protests

On Dec. 3, Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri made remarks indicating the morality police will be suspended. Montazeri spoke during a religious conference on Saturday “where officials were discussing the unrest” following the death of Mahsa Amini while in…

USCIRF ‘outraged’ by omission of Nigeria and India from State Department’s List of Countries of Particular Concern

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom has expressed outrage that the U.S. Department of State did not include Nigeria or India in its latest designations of Countries of Particular Concern. Although a government organization, the USCIRF does not have the same…

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’