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Creating inner peace

Last week I heard “therapy” mentioned on Zoom meetings, but not for the usual life dilemmas. The reason was generalized anxiety, a lack of inner peace. “I just need to learn new skills to live in this chaotic world now,”…

Kate Campbell is glad to be back in the room where it happens

Kate Campbell has done something few Baptists have done. She has sung for the Southern Baptist Convention, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship and the Baptist World Alliance. Campbell, whose style is a Folk/Gospel mixed with Blues and Country, is the daughter…

Fighting hate with humor? Moms for Liberty and Toby Morton’s dark humor

An antigovernment organization is currently going viral, but not on their official website. Toby Morton, former writer for the show South Park, has added Moms for Liberty to his growing list of spoof websites, jokingly profiling the organization’s hateful attitudes…

In South Africa, fire deaths shine a light on immigrant churches in ‘hijacked’ slum buildings”

Seventy-six people burned to death when a horrific fire tore through an illegally “hijacked” slum building in Johannesburg, South Africa’s, inner city. That many of the deceased and injured are undocumented African foreigners living on South African’s margins has shone…

‘Nobody wants to be an addict’

During a recent Spirituality in Recovery group at Costello House, a recovery living ministry for men, I asked residents if they would be willing to answer a few questions about their experiences with addiction and recovery. September is National Recovery…

Men and congregational singing: The rest of the story

Christianity Today recently published an opinion piece titled, “All About That Tenor: Why Men Don’t Sing in Worship.” The authors and their sources, one of whom is a treasured friend and a trusted colleague of mine, center their piece on…

Finding a pastor today is nothing like it was 30 years ago, consultants caution

One of the biggest challenges facing congregations in pastoral transition is realizing how radically the search process has changed since the turn of the century, according to Bill Wilson, founder of the Center for Healthy Churches. He and his successor,…

Things Christians need to know, for our own sake, about Yom Kippur, Judaism’s Day of Atonement

Invocation “Forgive the entire congregation / of the children of Yisrael / and the stranger amongst them / for the entire people sin unintentionally / Please pardon the sins of this nation / in accordance with the greatness / of…

SBC expels Oklahoma church over pastor’s racial impersonations

An Oklahoma church has been expelled from the Southern Baptist Convention because the pastor performed in blackface at a church event and impersonated a Native American woman at another. Matoaka Baptist Church in Ocheleta, Okla., was deemed “not in friendly…

What are the most ‘conservative’ colleges and universities in America?

Now Robert Jeffress says the Ten Commandments are important

Experiences of female clergy are often overlooked in accounts of the SBC schism, professor says

Let’s talk about those clergy resume ‘gaps’ for mothers