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With Invictus Howard Goodall tells Christ’s Passion mainly through texts written by women

When Howard Goodall set out to write a fresh choral work on the Passion of Christ, he knew full well the giants who had trod this ground before, especially the ever-present Johann Sebastian Bach. Yet he also knew the overwhelming…

‘For fear of the Jews’: Confronting Christian anti-Semitism

As we enter into the season of Lent and draw near to Holy Week, we dig deep into narratives of the coming suffering and death of Jesus, and into what has been — across the centuries — a time when…

On religious liberty views and other issues, there’s still a wide gap between evangelicals and the rest of America

If recent surveys of religious beliefs and practices have revealed anything, it’s that white evangelicals are out of step with the rest of the nation on just about every social and political measure. “White evangelicals are just on another planet,…

What do we do now? The blessing and curse of COVID to the church

It’s a shame when an opportunity is lost. Don’t lose the opportunity that COVID presents. That probably sounds counterintuitive. What opportunities have presented themselves through this pandemic? Frustration. Yes, frustration is an opportunity. Don’t miss this opportunity because frustration has…

State conventions beyond the South question SBC North American Mission Board’s spending and accountability for church planting

A decade-long disagreement over how Southern Baptists fund church planting and missions in North America is coming to a head and threatens the sanctity of the denomination’s spirit of cooperative giving. The result: State conventions outside the South are reducing…

Loving my neighbor by being an ‘active bystander’

I grew up as a missionary kid in a country where political and racial differences led to bloodshed and genocide. This was not actively directed toward American missionaries. They were bystanders. Often they had no opportunity to intervene because the…

A lesson from Texas: Winterization of power stations and the Golden Rule

As a record-breaking wave of arctic weather sweeps across the nation, the biggest energy producing state, Texas, is crippled. The state’s leaders are quick to point fingers at green energy alternatives like wind and solar, claiming such sources of power…

‘Hour of decision’? Evangelicalism in a post-church, post-Trump era

In 1950, evangelist Billy Graham initiated a radio program called the “Hour of Decision,” an audio vehicle for dispensing the call to conversion on the airwaves of America and the world. Actually, it was only a 30-minute broadcast, but what…

During Lent, I’m learning to walk with a limp

As a small-town Southern Baptist, I had little if any idea what Lent was until I lived with Scoop. Scoop, my junior-year roommate at the University of Georgia, was a somewhat intermittently practicing Catholic — he called himself a “High…

Kyle Tubbs to lead CBF Oklahoma

Kyle Tubbs, a national leader in church starting, has been elected coordinator of the Cooperating Baptist Fellowship of Oklahoma. He will succeed Steve Graham, who will retire the end of May after serving in the role since 2012. CBF Oklahoma…

Church leadership series offers help finding resilience required to navigate change

Church leaders in denial that change is inevitable got a wakeup call during the coronavirus outbreak. “The pandemic has made it so that now everybody is paying attention” to change, said Tod Bolsinger, executive director of the Fuller Depree Center’s…

Ministry jobs and more

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Supreme Court slides into partisanship

Before the fireworks, be careful what you drink

The contemptible case of Clarence Thomas

The permanent paradoxes of Christian thinking about war