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Mercer scholars explain the immense danger of Putin’s power play in Ukraine

Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine has surprised some Western observers who previously considered the Russian president to be a pragmatic realist, even if an authoritarian one, said a Mercer University professor of Russian and Soviet history. “I never considered…

The post-Cold War ‘peace’ is dead; long live the struggle for liberal democracy

The matter-of-fact finality of these words startled me: “The post-Cold War order, which began in 1989, ended in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine and said it had no right to exist as an independent nation.” The declaration came from Charles…

Dear Willy Rice and Ed Litton: I will gladly publish your explanation of Voddie Baucham’s theology if you will tell us exactly where we misrepresented him

The TheoBros have reacted with typical bombast this week to two articles we’ve published about Voddie Baucham. In predictable fashion, they have lobbed vitriol at BNG and our writers while accusing us of being vitriolic. This is a classic distraction…

Biblical insights on the human heart can speak to the climate crisis, scholar says

A failure of the “corporate heart of humanity” created the global climate crisis, and science alone cannot deliver the world from this predicament, according to a Duke Divinity School biblical scholar. During the March 7 Hinson Lectures at Baptist Seminary…

Elton John, minister of music

I was mortified when my mother asked Glynn, a high school senior, to give me a ride home. Glynn had two sisters — Lynn, a freshman, and Flynn, a seventh grader like me. I never had spoken to any of…

Let’s make America a place of welcome for displaced people

Being a refugee is not just what happened to you. It’s also who you’ve become as a result of what happened to you. Seventy years ago, the United States was one of the signatories to a historic legal document, the…

Global ‘thoughts and prayers’ will not stop a sociopathic bully

What should your neighbors do if a bully breaks into your home in broad daylight, begins killing members of your family, and publicly announces that the killing will continue until you surrender or abandon your home? Should the neighbors send…

As Putin bombs children, Russian Orthodox patriarch names the root of Ukraine’s sin: Gay Pride parades

While his president bombed children in Ukraine, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox church used his March 6 Sunday sermon to name the real source of the war started by Russia against its neighbor: Gay pride parades. Patriarch Kirill preached…

600 Ukrainian Baptist churches actively responding to humanitarian need

Baptist churches in Ukraine are providing around-the-clock humanitarian relief in increasingly difficult circumstances as Russia’s offensive widens, the European Baptist Federation said in a March 8 situation report. “Ukrainian Baptists continue to respond to the war in their country. Churches…

Optimism returning to Americans as they see pandemic threat fading, but some sober realities remain

Americans are feeling a whole lot better about the COVID-19 pandemic and are more willing to venture out to places they shied away from for the past two years, according to new data published by both Gallup and Pew Research…

The road to equity for all is still too long, but here’s a hero we need to remember

People always stand at particular points in history, sometimes fully aware of where they stand, but sometimes giving little or no notice. Today we stand at a juncture worth noting — Black History Month behind us, and in the first…

30 years later, North Carolina Baptist church recalls its journey to affirm same-sex unions

The months preceding Pullen Memorial Baptist Church’s historic vote to perform same-sex blessings and to officially become a welcoming and affirming congregation were, at times, dark and turbulent ones, former Pullen pastor Mahan Siler recalled during the congregation’s 30-year celebration…

3 views on Donald Trump held by American Christians

US megachurches report strong rebound from pandemic

Baptists need to speak up again for religious liberty

What in hell became of heaven?