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Pride month: suggestions for straight allies in queer spaces

Given the harsh judgment, discrimination and hateful rhetoric LGBTQ people face from many Christian people, seeing churches who love, affirm and support LGBTQ people is essential. Still, when straight people enter queer spaces, even as allies, their heterosexual privilege can be problematic.

Finding an alternative to the anxious pursuit of happiness parading as American Christianity

Of the 25 to 30 students, adults, married couples and whole families I see each week in my practice as a psychotherapist, almost nothing is more difficult to overcome than our collective commitment to the anxious pursuit of happiness at all costs.

Petition demanding Southern Baptist seminary pay reparations collecting signatures online

Former faculty members at a Southern Baptist Convention seminary and Baptist professors at other schools joined a call urging financial reparations to American descendants of slavery in a petition now collecting signatures on change.org.

‘Pentecost-tide’: pondering what it means to be fully alive in the Spirit

What is the Holy Spirit up to these days? How should we pray in order to align our actions to the purposes of God who moves among us as Spirit? The Spirit is usually to be found where conflict is burning, for that provides an opportunity to move toward a new level of understanding and discourse.

Transitions for the week of 6-7-19

Recent church staff changes, anniversaries, ordinations and deaths within the moderate and progressive Baptist network.

Norfolk Street Choir infuses dignity with a dose of music

No one would mistake the Freemason Street Baptist Church Norfolk Street Choir concert for professionals. But that’s hardly the point. With this group, rehearsals are in large part the purpose. Performance is a byproduct.

Falwell says pastor who prayed for Trump should ‘grow a pair’

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. seemed unimpressed by Pastor David Platt’s explanation of why he prayed alongside President Donald Trump during a worship service last Sunday.

Southern Seminary leadership nixes idea of reparations for historically black college

A Southern Baptist seminary that in February lamented its historical ties to slavery is unwilling to make monetary reparations to a nearby historically black Baptist college, according to the seminary’s president and trustee chairman.

Lawsuit reveals details about Paige Patterson’s ‘break her down’ meeting with woman alleging campus rape

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