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Transitions for the week of 6-3-22

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated bi-weekly. STAFF CHANGES Joshua Breslaw, to First Baptist Church, Gonzales, Texas, as pastor. He comes from the pastorate of College Heights…

West Texas Baptist university adopts new faith statement with strict emphasis on gender and marriage

Trustees of Hardin-Simmons University in West Texas have adopted a new statement of faith that focuses on “two genetic sexes” and marriage as “a life-long, covenant relationship between one genetic male and one genetic female” as articles of faith. The…

Pastors dabble in brewing and mining to survive Zimbabwe’s burning economy

Father Chukucha cuts a lone figure as he circles the withering garden of his parish in Mberengwa, one of the poorest districts of the middle of Zimbabwe. While 250 miles away in another district, Pastor Noel Fengu, a Baptist minister,…

Have the fundamentalists won? And the future of liberal Christianity

One hundred years ago, May 21, 1922, Harry Emerson Fosdick preached his most famous sermon, “Shall the Fundamentalists Win?” He was at the time the preaching minister of the First Presbyterian Church in New York City. The Presbyterian denomination along…

How a seminary education causes a pastor to struggle with Comforting Lies versus Unpleasant Truths

Imagine going to medical school or law school and finding out once you graduate and enter your practice that you must forget at least 25% of what you learned or lose your job. Yeah, that is what it’s like for…

New study documents pliable influence of partisan media

Partisan media outlets like Fox News pose a hazard to democracy by denying their viewers’ access to information detrimental to conservative candidates and causes while amplifying misinformation about their opponents, according to a study into the role of selective content…

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

Transitions for the week of 6-3-22

West Texas Baptist university adopts new faith statement with strict emphasis on gender and marriage

Pastors dabble in brewing and mining to survive Zimbabwe’s burning economy

Have the fundamentalists won? And the future of liberal Christianity

How a seminary education causes a pastor to struggle with Comforting Lies versus Unpleasant Truths

New study documents pliable influence of partisan media

Our national golden calf is killing us

When you’re tempted to forget about the latest school shooting, remember the embalmers

Who’ll be there at the end of your prayer?

After Uvalde, let us dream of impossible things

Hannah Kate Williams refiles sexual abuse lawsuit against SBC entities

Trump’s anti-immigration policies continue to cost U.S. economy $9 billion a year

Missouri judge finds state laws restricting abortion violate voter-approved constitutional amendment

Seeing Pope Leo XIV’s AI Encyclical Through A Jewish Lens

The Baptist who made Juneteenth a holiday

A judge orders ICE to free a Wisconsin mosque leader, citing a ‘substantial’ free speech claim

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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