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Where are the women on the SBC’s first and second sexual abuse task forces?

The newest task force appointed to address sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention shares one key thing in common with the first Sexual Abuse Task Force that wrapped up its work this summer: Only two women are represented on…

What I learned at Wake Forest Baptist Church

I was saddened, but not surprised, at the announcement that the Wake Forest Baptist church, whose members met in Wait Chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University for 66 years, is dissolving. I am sad because I’m a graduate…

Progressive Baptist congregation on Wake Forest campus votes to close

The first thing that’s essential to know about this story is that there are two churches in North Carolina named Wake Forest Baptist Church. That’s important not only for clarity but also for historical context. One of those churches announced…

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…

Why can’t we accept sexual and gender diversity in humans as well as in all creation?

This is the sixth in a series of articles on sexual diversity. If God’s handiwork has a trademark, surely it is diversity. “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree” wrote Joyce Kilmer. There is…

I’ve been unaware of my privilege, and if you are a man, you probably have, too

In this time of increased, and justified, attention to gender inequities, I have been thinking about my own life. It occurs to me that while I have supported women colleagues, female students and girls within my circle of family and…

South African women’s soccer team success shines a light on gender wage discrimination

There is a lingering giddy feeling that comes with winning a major sports competition. If in doubt, ask South Africans. Since July 23, when the country’s women’s national soccer team, Banyana Banyana, won the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations in…

Are left-wing radicals pushing Cracker Barrel to the edge of the slippery slope?

On Aug. 1, liberals won a huge victory in the culture war. Analysts at Cracker Barrel Old Country Store read studies that promised consumer attitudes about plant-based meats are becoming more affirming and posted: “Discover new meat frontiers. Experience the…

It isn’t a church and doesn’t have members, but it is a way to keep United Methodists in the fold as their congregations disaffiliate

The social media messages can be heartrending to read: “I feel abandoned by my church that voted to leave the UMC.” “This separation has caused a rift in decades-old fellowships.” “I’m feeling … like our beloved church got pushed off…

Al Mohler derides a dead man, and the dead man’s friends aren’t happy

Al Mohler has not come to praise Ron Sider but to bury him — with posthumous damnation, no less. Sider, an early leader of the modern progressive left within Christianity, died July 27. His most influential book was Rich Christians…

Rural church offers community development grants through Gratitude Project

Pastor Dennis Atwood concluded a sermon series focused on gratitude last fall by challenging his congregation at First Baptist Church of Mount Olive to seek systemic solutions to systemic poverty and food insecurity in their rural corner of eastern North…

Matthew Vines sets off a debate over what it means to be ‘queer’

Dear Mike Johnson, be careful what you ask for

What, to the white Christian, is America 250?

Four years later, anti-abortionists battle on other fronts