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Babs Baugh, former president of Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation, dead at 78

Like her parents, Baugh’s generosity emanated from her Christian faith and deep convictions about historic Baptist values. Her heritage of family and faith also inspired prolific service to a wide range of faith-based institutions. She served on the boards of Mercer University, B.H. Carroll Theological Seminary, Baptist Joint Committee and Baptist Center for Ethics, among others.

Baptist groups join forces to promote religious freedom during difficult year

An initiative by three autonomous Baptist groups will address religious liberty issues specific to an election year, a global pandemic and heightened racial tensions.

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As the white mother of a black son, calls for racial justice evoke something deep within me

My son is now raising black sons of his own. He fears for them, as I feared for him when he was a child and now fear for my grandchildren.

White minister tells George Floyd family, mourners: white Christians must fight racism

“Racism is the reversal of the revelation of God. Racism is not perfect love casting out fear, it is perfect fear casting out love.”

I’m a conservative Christian. I’ve got a problem with the flag.

June 14 is Flag Day. I’ll proudly fly my new flag from our house. But when a church hoists the American flag and the Christian flag, that church immediately puts itself in an unwinnable situation.

Trump’s latest obscenity, a contrived and vacuous photo op, has left a lasting impression

Just as Trump has not risen to the stature of the presidency, religious leaders who have blindly supported and defended him have not risen to the stature of their prophetic calling. A country cannot afford to have both king (president, in America’s case) and prophets fail all at once.

Invoking Hauerwas and Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount: Christians, stop the killing

Would it be too much to invoke the spirit of Hauerwas’ words to ask that Christians in America stop killing each other, either with physical weapons or with weaponized words?

We can’t talk about racial justice without addressing the ‘value gap’

What the eruption of protests – and subsequent riots – across the nation shows is that for too long black bodies have been harmed and victimized by the past and present values of white supremacy.

Without the power of ‘collective effervescence,’ can megachurches (and Donald Trump) survive the pandemic?

Both the Republican Party and the white evangelical megachurches of America may be back to normal by mid-summer. But if the rush to re-open sends the death rate spiraling upward, the white megachurch model may never recover.

New database tracks Baptist predators ‘of all flavors’

“While this database was inspired by SBC abuse, we have opened it to include Baptists of all flavors, not just SBC.”

I’m so weary of hearing ‘I’m sorry’ from white people. Just stop it!

White people can be exhausting partly because there is so much that they are ignorant of or unequivocally wrong about on crucial, literally life-and-death issues. And that gets old.

What Disclosure Day reveals about evangelicals’ fears

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6 ways the Reflecting Pool boondoggle mirrors Trump and MAGA

Pilate asked Jesus, ‘What is truth?’