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Baptist-Catholic dialogue resumes despite challenges of pandemic

Despite the travel limitations imposed by COVID-19, a group of Baptist and Catholic scholars have continued their historic dialogue on ecumenical relationships. Conversations between the Baptist World Alliance and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity were put on hold…

Transitions for the week of 6-25-21

Please submit transitions — including staff changes, ordinations, anniversaries or deaths — to Barbara Francis. This page will be updated bi-weekly. STAFF CHANGES Todd Barnes, to Mayo Baptist Church, Spencer, Va., as pastor. Carter Barrow, to First Baptist Church, Manchester, Ga.,…

45 years after the Soweto uprising, religious leaders call for more racial harmony among South Africans

Forty-five years after a group of young Black students in Soweto, South Africa, took to the streets to protest an educational policy of the ruling South African apartheid government, leading to the death of more than 170 of them, the…

The role of seminaries in guiding ex-evangelicals like me through deconstruction

Over the past decade, evangelicals have had to come to terms with the fact that people are leaving the church in droves. According to a recent Gallup poll, just 47% of Americans are members of a church, falling from 70% in…

Gallup finds a sharp political divide on American views of moral values

Nearly half of Americans believe the nation’s moral values are in poor condition, and a significantly higher percentage predict those standards are only going to get worse, a newly released Gallup poll has found. But the survey also found political…

Creative hands and artistic activism in times of crisis

Hands always have fascinated me, not only as an artist where we put something of ourselves in a new and visible form, but also as a manner of human connection. My interest might have begun long ago in kindergarten when…

Remembering Christ’s death with chicken soup and Goldfish

It’s probably wrong to think this, but it feels good to hear that groups other than Baptists are fighting about stuff. Catholics are all in a snit about allowing the president to share Communion since he is a supporter of…

Arkansas panelists describe capital punishment as ‘legalized lynching’

People of faith must rise up against capital punishment as a system of legalized lynching and retribution designed to suppress people of color through intimidation, torture and death, according to a recent panel of legal experts and anti-death penalty advocates….

New court ruling shielding Trump officials who cleared Lafayette Square for the Bible photo op renews debate about ‘qualified immunity’

A federal judge’s June 21 ruling to protect former Trump administration officials from lawsuits stemming from their actions to forcibly clear Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, illustrates the near-impossibility of any government official being held responsible for acting in…

Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

Restored Voices Collective gets GRACE report on former board member

‘CatsOnACouch’ influencer sues over First Amendment rights

Court finds Trump and Blanche conspired to create sham IRS lawsuit

Baptist-Catholic dialogue resumes despite challenges of pandemic

Transitions for the week of 6-25-21

45 years after the Soweto uprising, religious leaders call for more racial harmony among South Africans

The role of seminaries in guiding ex-evangelicals like me through deconstruction

Gallup finds a sharp political divide on American views of moral values

Creative hands and artistic activism in times of crisis

Remembering Christ’s death with chicken soup and Goldfish

Arkansas panelists describe capital punishment as ‘legalized lynching’

New court ruling shielding Trump officials who cleared Lafayette Square for the Bible photo op renews debate about ‘qualified immunity’

Does the SBC indicate where we are headed?

Churches and vaccination clinics have this in common: Young adults are staying away

I’m a white pastor, learning from Black Christians about grief without privilege

Israel is building a miles-long earthen barrier inside Gaza, entrenching its division

Hegseth’s Testosterone Announcement Isn’t Just a Sign of the Right’s Fragile Masculinity — It’s Also Wrong

Embryo Personhood Moving Closer To The Political Center

As bishop in Peru, future Pope Leo showed himself ahead of the curve on synodality

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Paxton dodges ethics questions while claiming Talarico isn’t Christian

Restored Voices Collective gets GRACE report on former board member

‘CatsOnACouch’ influencer sues over First Amendment rights

Court finds Trump and Blanche conspired to create sham IRS lawsuit