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If you’re not concerned about the Southern Baptists, you ought to be!

“I just ran into some weirdos in the airport,” Uncle Eugene reported. “You know, the kind with their heads shaved except for a little ponytail at the back.” “I think they’re Hare Krishna,” I said. “Well, whatever,” Uncle Eugene continued…

Greg Garrett, Baylor prof and BNG columnist, awarded Baugh grant for research on race and media

BNG columnist and Baylor University professor Greg Garrett has received a three-year, $488,000 grant from the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation to further his research on how film and other media shape attitudes about race and racism. “I’m so…

DeLoach confirmed as McAfee School of Theology dean

After serving in an interim role for more than 18 months, Gregory DeLoach has been named dean of Mercer University’s McAfee School of Theology. Prior to being named interim dean in 2018, DeLoach served as a development officer for Mercer’s…

‘We’re done educating you’

His words brought me up short. Gregg Neel is co-pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Portland, Ore. He was our guest on our weekly webinar, talking about how his church has decided to come out of the pandemic accelerating into…

On Earth Day: Let’s walk on water together

The Apostle Peter may seem an odd subject choice for a message about Earth Day, but hear me out on this one. I always have felt a special affinity with Peter. He is the disciple of Jesus who seemed to…

Attacks on Critical Race Theory are ‘attempt to maintain the status quo’

Critical Race Theory, the continued racial segregation of U.S. churches and the need to include African Americans more fully in religious liberty campaigns were among the topics discussed during “Religious Liberty Has Been White Too Long: Voices of Black Scholars,”…

From Texas to Tennessee, evangelical parents are trying to take the ‘public’ out of public education

Ever since the forced integration of public schools, white evangelical Christians have led the charge to “protect” their children from social issues they’re not willing to face up to at home. Sadly, they expect that protection to come by means…

When the dying stops, will we remember to address the multiplied grief of COVID?

Among the many innovations to emerge from the coronavirus pandemic is this sad rubric: The COVID-19 Bereavement Multiplier. Ashton Verdery, associate professor of sociology and demography at Pennsylvania State University, led the study that created the Bereavement Multiplier, which estimates…

Baylor and Buckner remind us: We’ve not yet reckoned with our past ties to slavery

A special commission at Baylor University recently reported on its historical research about the university’s founders and their connection with slavery and the Confederacy. This follows on the heels of a discovery reported in September 2020 that R.C. Buckner, for…

On Earth Day, let us remember the earth is filled with God’s glory

“Let me seek, then, the gift of silence … where the sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is in all.” — Thomas Merton, “Thoughts In Solitude.” This…

CeCe Winans is experiencing a season of firsts

Award-winning Gospel artist CeCe Winans is living a life of many firsts. As a first-time grandparent and first-time co-pastor of the church she leads with her husband, she also recently recorded the first live album of her solo career. CeCe,…

Climate change is heating up the terrorist conflict in Africa’s Sahel region

In Africa’s Sahel region — the current hotbed of terrorist violence — climate change has become a leading cause of worsening conditions. Although Nigeria is not new to security challenges, some commentators in the country recently have linked the worrying…

The wicked are punished — or not

What Ryan Burge sees in America’s megachurches

We are a nation of immigrants

As worldwide deaths mount, Musk insists DOGE cuts didn’t kill anyone