Two parallels and an outlier: Graham Platner, Roy Moore and Donald Trump

The stories of Graham Platner and Roy Moore, although unfolding in different parties and different eras, trace the same institutional pattern: Modern political parties elevate outsiders when they are useful and abandon them when they become inconvenient. Platner and Moore...

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There is no ‘new-normal.’ The question is what we will choose to normalize in this moment.

Will we choose the pathway of least resistance, passivity and acquiescence? Or the active pathway of thoughtful, intentional and deliberate discernment about those things we will shed and leave behind and those things we will normalize going forward?

I should have said, ‘Tengo un problema’ (I have a problem)

For far, far too long, white people in the United States have pretended to understand more than we understand, pretended that the problem is not as bad as it is, and pretended that it is not about us. Now we are lost and do not even know the language to get home.

Virtual General Assembly evokes memories of CBF’s foundation, formative role

The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship’s pandemic-induced move to online spaces cannot replace the family reunion function that so many love about the annual event.

Baptists and Walmart criticize rebel-themed Mississippi flag

The Confederate-themed Mississippi flag drew opposition Tuesday from two big forces in the culturally conservative state: Southern Baptists and Walmart.

‘Southern pride’ or racism? White Christians are compelled to discern the difference. And confess.

As commonly used, the term “Southern pride” is shorthand for a stubborn refusal to admit that the South, as a concept, is hopelessly enmeshed in the canons of white supremacy.

‘A shelter for conscience’ in a sea of racism: Black Churches Matter, too

We white Christians still have a lot to learn and a reprehensible past to lament. After 400 years, we’d better pray that black churches are still willing to teach us. And that we’ve got conscience enough to act on what we learn.

Q&A with Walter Brueggemann: faith in a time of COVID-19

“Right now, too many churches have flown off into spiritualizing generalizations that are unhelpful to everyone.”

Family, faith and humor recalled as Babs Baugh laid to rest in Houston

Baugh, former president of the Eula Mae and John Baugh Foundation and a benefactor of progressive Baptist ministries and movements around the world, died June 14 in San Antonio after battling Parkinson’s disease. She was 78.

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Beyond the divisions: 5 guiding principles for Christian citizenship in a polarized nation

For all the complexities and sharp disagreements among Christians on matters that shape our citizenship, a certain foundation of shared faith can guide all of us who believe we have a constructive, even transformative, role to play in society.

White churches must repent for racism, minister says, and worship services are a good place to start

White churches must use worship services to repent for the sin of racism in part by acknowledging complicity – active or passive, said Natasha Nedrick, associate minister at Greenforest Community Baptist Church in Atlanta.