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If you think the Jackson water crisis is just about Mississippi, you’re all dried up

Mississippi is “the Magnolia State” where Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old African American boy, was abducted, tortured and lynched in August 1955. Mississippi is where Medgar Evers was murdered June 12, 1963. Mississippi is where three civil rights activists — James Chaney, Andrew…

A view from the drought: How climate change and hunger and the war in Ukraine are conspiring against life in Africa

In many parts of the world today, two major issues of concern are the rising cost of goods and services, and the scarcity of food. The inflationary aspect is in part connected to the war in Ukraine and the crisis…

Faison nominated to lead Virginia convention

For the first time in its 200-year history, the Baptist General Association of Virginia could be led by someone other than a white male. The BGAV Executive Board Aug. 30 nominated Wayne D. Faison for election as the state Baptist…

There’s a spiritual side to food

“When I tried it with butter, everything changed!” — How Food Brings Us Together Recently on Tik Tok, this interview of a kid named Tariq talking about how much he loves corn has gone viral. He’s even gotten his own…

As the third consecutive woman to preside over CBF, Debbie McDaniel is just as surprised as anyone else

As the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s new moderator, Debbie McDaniel said she wants women and girls to know they have a place in Baptist life, whether as ordained or lay leaders. “I want girls to know you and I are both…

Frederick Buechner, Maya Angelou and Helen Lewis: Telling the truth

But to preach the gospel is not just to tell the truth but to tell the truth in love and to tell the truth in love means to tell it with concern not only for the truth that is being…

Just what we needed: Another pompous declaration from the conservative Calvinist evangelicals

The Christians who keep abusing their privilege to demand everyone else conform to their narrow views of culture and politics have released a new “declaration” against the abuse of power. As if the world needed one more declaration from the…

The problem of fandom in churches

In a media-saturated world filled with choices, some people have turned to what is known as “fandom” to find identity, meaning and purpose for life. In churches, some have substituted being a fan for being a follower of Jesus. Fandom…

At nearly 90, Charles Stanley makes half a million a year and his ministry is awash in cash

Editor’s update: Charles Stanley died April 18 at age 90. Read his obituary here. If you’re worried about Charles Stanley being destitute in his old age, worry no more. He’ll turn 90 years of age on Sept. 25 and…

Jesus would turn over tables in this Crisis Pregnancy Center

During my first stint in seminary, I visited a Crisis Pregnancy Center to write a paper for a class on health and spirituality. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. When I arrived, the director and I met for a…

National Association of Evangelicals joins call for attention to climate change

A newly released report on faith and the environment comes from an unlikely source — the National Association of Evangelicals. While many evangelical Christians are known as deniers of climate change science and boosters of fossil-fuel energy — a known…

In Jackson, Miss., the lack of water flows into conversation about God, politics and public trust

Last Sunday, Aug. 28, I was privileged to be in attendance at Northminster Baptist Church in Jackson, Miss., as Pastor Chuck Poole gave his last sermon after 25 years of ministry and his final splash in the baptismal pool. The…

Rise of American authoritarianism demands a choice, Perryman says

Shaving Dad goodbye

The Enhanced Games were another MAGA grift

It’s bad interpretation, not the Bible, limiting female pastors