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A global pestilence stalks in darkness. Will we tempt God or take up our cross? | #intimeslikethese

We can hang onto Jesus with the right hand, grasp our brothers and sisters with the left, and take one bold step into the gathering gloom of Holy Week. That’s what Lent has always been about. That’s what it’s about now, amid a global pestilence that stalks in the darkness.

‘You can’t get a Ph.D. in caring’: COVID-19 calls for believer-priests | #intimeslikethese

With all this grief, on a societal level perhaps not seen since 9/11 or the stock market crash of 1929, we pastors and other church staff sure could use more ministers. For Baptists, this shouldn’t be a novel idea.

Central Seminary announces Marshall’s sudden resignation

Molly T. Marshall has stepped down from the presidency of Central Baptist Theological Seminary months ahead of her previously announced summer retirement.

High-profile HSU critic energizes Save Logsdon Seminary campaign

Leaders of a movement to prevent Hardin-Simmons University from closing its Baptist seminary are emboldened by a major donor who publicly chastised HSU’s leadership for what he described as financial and spiritual failings. In a letter to trustees, Jeff Sandefer…

As gun sales spike amid COVID-19, we can choose caring over fear | #intimeslikethese

This is not about guns or the Second Amendment. This is deeper than that. This is a spiritual issue. This is about a fundamental cleavage in the soul of America.

Repent and be healed: Our response to the global pandemic has revealed our sin | #intimeslikethese

No, the COVID-19 virus is not some kind of divinely unleashed pestilence to punish us. But what seems clear is this: It is not the disease itself that has revealed our sin, it is the ways we have responded that have condemned us to our current misery and suffering.

BWA postpones World Congress due to COVID-19 concerns | #intimeslikethese

“We must not give into fear.”

BNG’s Natalie Aho named program manager at Wake Forest School of Divinity

Natalie Aho, Baptist News Global’s director of engagement and annual giving, has been named the first program manager of the Baptist Commons at Wake Forest University School of Divinity in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She begins her new role April 1….

British clergy mysteries: some suggestions to help lighten the mood during a global pandemic | #intimeslikethese

More than simply being an entertaining way to pass the time, these fictional accounts of murder mysteries and crime dramas can help us ponder more deeply our own fears, hopes, vulnerabilities and values.

Want to find rest from the weariness of COVID-19? Breathe | #intimeslikethese

Sit. Breathe. Breathe deep. Breathe deep the breath of God.

Amid this pandemic, we need prophets like Daniel to decipher the handwriting on our wall | #intimeslikethese

The coronavirus pandemic, like the handwriting on the wall in Daniel 5, has interrupted our nation’s imperialist and idolatrous banquet of materialism, racism, white religious nationalism and militarism that Martin Luther King Jr. prophetically identified as lethal threats to the country and the world.

Sermons about Sodom are timely, but not for reasons you may think | #intimeslikethese

The story of Lot and Sodom is relevant and timely, if we see it as a story of radical hospitality.

Trump’s war on ‘woke’ targets federal grants and foreign relations

Reflections on In the Twilight of the Christian West

Why rural families need support now

Why do we keep sounding the alarm?